About Paul Grabowicz

Paul Grabowicz is assistant dean, adjunct professor, director of the New Media Program at the Graduate School of Journalism and teaches classes in multimedia, new media publishing, computer assisted reporting and introductory reporting. He is a contributing editor at the Online Journalism Review, writing a column about the Internet and its uses as a reporting tool. He is co-author of "California Inc.," a book about how the entrepreneurial spirit shaped the politics, culture and economy of California. He also is a contributor to the E-Media Tidbits group Weblog on online publishing.

A journalist for 27 years, he spent most of his career as the investigative reporter at The Oakland Tribune. He also served as night city editor and acting city editor and developed an early prototype of a Web site for the paper. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor’s degree in sociology, he began his journalism career in 1973 working for local papers in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the Bay Guardian. He has written for publications such asThe Washington Post, Esquire magazine, The Village Voice and Newsday and is the recipient of numerous journalism awards, including honors from the California Newspaper Publishers Association, the Inland Daily Press Association, and First Amendment Funding.

In 1995 he launched J-JOBS, a journalism jobs digest distributed on the Internet. He later set up and now operates the J-JOBS online journalism job bank, the CAL-FOI First Amendment archive, an Internet resources guide for reporters, a new media ethics policies page, a set of guides on computer assisted reporting, and a multimedia resources section, all on the Web site of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He also runs an e-mail discussion list on freedom-of-information issues.

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