SPJ NORCAL BOARD
Last updated: February 21, 2010
E.B. Boyd
Reporter, FastCompany.com
eb.boyd [AT] yahoo. com
E.B. (“Liza”) is FastCompany.com’s Silicon Valley reporter. She has a dual background in tech and journalism. She’s worked as a producer for CNN in the Middle East and as a staff writer at The Toledo Blade, where she won the newspaper’s first-ever Writer of the Year award to a staffer with fewer than five years’ service. She also worked in Silicon Valley, at startups and Fortune 1000s, doing technical writing, usability testing, user experience design, and project management. Currently, she reports on innovation and game changes in the tech industry.
L.A. Chung
Writer, researcher, consultant
LAChungSF@gmail.com
http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?trk=hb_side_pro
L.A. Chung is, at heart, a Silicon Valley journalist. She has worked for The Hartford Courant, the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Jose Mercury News, as reporter, editor and columnist. Before and between, she has been a wedding planner and the executive director for a national non-profit, the Asian American Journalists Association. The “A” stands for “Ann.” There is no relation to Connie.
Michael Collier
National-Foreign Editor 
San Francisco Chronicle
901 Mission St.
SF, CA. 94103
415-777-8858
mcollier@sfchronicle.com
Michael has been a newspaper editor and reporter in the Bay Area for 28 years, covering natural disasters from the 1989 earthquake to the East Bay hills fire and editing the region’s best reporters on award-winning stories from City Hall scandals to major breaking news and special reports. His current post is National-Foreign Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, where he oversees the paper’s political coverage, including the Politics Blog on SFGate.com, in addition to U.S. and world news. Michael joined the Chron’s staff in 1998, when Jerry Brown was running for mayor of Oakland. Before that, he was a regional editor for the San Jose Mercury and a reporter and editor at the Oakland Tribune. After growing up in Oregon and attending college in Indiana, Michael moved to Berkeley in 1979 to attend UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. He is married and has three grown children.
Michelle Devera
Copy editor, San Francisco Chronicle
Chair, California Media Workers Guild, San Francisco Chronicle Unit
901 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 777-7794
mdevera@sfchronicle.com
Liz Enochs
Board President
Business Journalist
Senior Editor, Housing Wire
liz [AT] lizenochs.com
www.lizenochs.com
Liz Enochs is an award-winning journalist with two decades of experience, including a dozen years covering business, finance and economics. She’s worked as both a reporter and an editor, and has written pieces ranging from features to profiles to investigative stories. Her experience includes work as a senior editor at Hanley Wood, where she edited stories for two magazines, Affordable Housing Finance and Apartment Finance Today. She has also worked at Red Herring magazine, Bloomberg News, The Bond Buyer, Mother Jones, Mountain Xpress, and Horizon magazine. Her stories have appeared in, among other publications, The New York Times, The International Herald-Tribune, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Los Angeles Times, The Seattle Times, and The Boston Globe. She holds a B.A. in English from Duke University.
Lee Hubbard
Reporter, Oakland Post
Lee Hubbard is a journalist with more than a decade of experience who has written for the ethnic press, the alternative press, and the mainstream press. The recipient of New California Media’s Outstanding Young Journalist award in 1999, Hubbard started his career at the San Francisco Bay Guardian after earning a master’s degree in journalism at Northeastern University. He has worked at the San Francisco Independent, Sun, Bay View, and City Star, before joining the Oakland Post, where he has been a reporter since 2009.
Linda Jue
Past President
Director/Executive Editor, G.W. Williams Center for Independent Journalism
nvijdirector@gmail.com
Linda Jue is the immediate past president of SPJ-NorCal. Previously, she was president for two and a half years and vice president for three. She is director and executive editor of the G.W. Williams Center for Independent Journalism, which sponsors independent public interest and investigative reporting projects of national scope by journalists of color, women and youth.
Diane Keaton
Board Vice President
Senior Editor, Forestweb, Inc.
d.keaton@forestweb.com
Diane Keaton is a senior editor at Forestweb, Inc., which reports on the international forest products industry and related subjects. She was the company’s first employee when it launched in 2000 as an exclusively online news provider, and she has been involved in many aspects of its growth and evolution. Previously, she worked in Bay Area newspaper, television and radio newsrooms in a number of positions, among them news writer, show and field producer and section editor. She also covered agriculture for statewide publications. She is a longtime member of the SPJ NorCal board and also sits on its Freedom of Information Committee.
Holly Kernan
News Director, KALW public radio, 91.7 FM
hkernan@mills.edu
Holly Kernan is the architect of the Public Interest Reporting Project at KALW public radio, where she is news director and host. In 2004, Kernan created a newsroom from scratch, as she watched the commercial model for journalism suffer increasing cutbacks, especially at the local level. In 2005, she created a program to train new journalists at Mills College in Oakland, with an eye on bringing more diverse voices to the airwaves. Kernan also teaches at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Before coming to KALW, Kernan spent a decade as a producer and reporter at KQED public radio. Prior to that, she produced historical documentaries for Canal Sur TV in southern Spain. She was named “Journalist of the Year” by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists in 2009.
Lila LaHood
Publisher, SF Public Press
lila [AT] sfpublicpress.org
Lila LaHood is the publisher of the Public Press (sfpublicpress.org). She has worked as a nonprofit consultant, and as a freelance writer and editor. She was previously a business writer at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where she covered retail and real estate. Lila has an M.S. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. in international relations from Stanford University.
Nina Martin
Articles editor
San Francisco magazine
243 Vallejo Street, San Francisco, CA 94111
(415) 216-0889
Randy Shandobil
Independent journalist
Randy Shandobil has more than three decades of experience as a broadcast journalist. He spent most of his career at KTVU-TV in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was a producer of the Ten O’clock News, a general assignment reporter and then from 1998 through the 2010 elections, Shandobil was KTVU’s Political Editor. In 2005, a national panel of judges unanimously selected Shandobil for the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism for his coverage of the 2004 presidential campaign. It was the second consecutive Cronkite Award for Shandobil. He also won for his coverage of the 2002 California Governor’s race. He won the California Journalism Award for excellence in political reporting four times, eight Emmy Awards, the Freedom of Information Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Society of Professional Journalist’s Career Achievement Award.
Laurie Udesky
Independent journalist
laurieudesky@hotmail.com
http://www.facebook.com/people/Laurie-Udesky/644464931
Laurie Udesky has been a reporter and editor for more than 20 years. She was an editor at Southern Exposure magazine in Durham, NC. She has reported on health, social welfare and public policy issues for print, radio and online outlets. She spent five years as a foreign correspondent in Turkey until November 2001. While there she covered breaking news, health and social welfare issues for many newspapers, magazines, radio and Internet outlets, including The Dallas Morning News, The San Francisco Examiner, the St. Petersburg Times, Salon.com, Macleans magazine, National Public Radio and Consumer Health Interactive. She has won many national and regional awards, and is short-listed for a 2009 Webby Award in the online film and video, documentary series category for her multimedia project on an irreverent amputee support group.
Pueng Vongs
SPJ National Diversity Chair
Sports Producer, MercuryNews.com
pvongs@bayareanewsgroup.com
Pueng Vongs has been a journalist for 18 years working at such outlets as Money magazine, Pacific News Service/New America Media and now the MercuryNews.com. She has lived and reported from her native Thailand covering a wide range of issues from the economic crash to tsunami relief to human trafficking. Her articles have also appeared in such outlets as NPR’s All Things Considered, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Christian Science Monitor online. She currently serves as the National Diversity Chair for SPJ.
Bernice Yeung
Freelance Writer and Editor 
bernice@berniceyeung.com
www.berniceyeung.com
Bernice Yeung is a freelance journalist who enjoys writing about people, public policy, culture and the law—or, ideally, some unexpected combination thereof. A former staff writer for SF Weekly who has also worked as an editor at California Lawyer magazine, her work has appeared in publications such as Mother Jones, The New York Times, Dwell, Wired and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is also a contributing editor to Edutopia, and serves on the board of directors of Hyphen, an independent Asian American magazine that she co-founded.
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