- Dan Gillmor
Dan Gillmor is a noted American technology writer and former columnist for the "San Jose Mercury News". He was one of the leading chroniclers of the Silicon Valley dot com boom and its subsequent bust. Gillmor is also the author of a popular weblog covering technology news and the Northern California technology business sector, criticizing rigid enforcement of copyrights, and commenting on politics from a frequently left-wing perspective.
- Dean Takahashi
Check out my cool video. It's not really me. It's a synthetic me. A company called Mova captured my face and cast it in digital form. With their animation technology, they could get me to say things I never did. :) Look for this technology to appear in video games in a year or two. I am Dean Takahashi.
- Gary Webb
Gary Webb (August 31, 1955 - December 10, 2004) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative journalist, best known for his 1996 "Dark Alliance" investigative report series, written for the "San Jose Mercury News". In the three-part series (later published as a book), Webb investigated Nicaraguans linked to the CIA-backed Contras who had allegedly distributed crack cocaine into Los Angeles and funneled profits to the Contras.
- Mark Fiore
Mark Fiore is an American political cartoonist specializing in Flash-animated editorial cartoons. Fiore lives in San Francisco, California and his cartoons have appeared in numerous American papers and a number of websites. He studied political science at Colorado College and was a staff cartoonist for the San Jose Mercury News. He left newspapers for animated online comics in 2001, and he currently makes animated editorial cartoons for his website,, …
- Larry Magid
Larry Magid A syndicated technology columnist and broadcaster for more than two decades, Larry Magid is an on-air technology analyst for CBS News and frequent contributor to the New York Times, San Jose Mercury News , and other publications. He is the author of several books, including the critically acclaimed Little PC Book . He is coauthor of MySpace Unraveled: What it is and how to use it safely . You can read his blog and columns at www.pcanswer.com.
- Ryan Blitstein
Ryan Blitstein is a reporter at the San Jose MercuryNews. Ryan has been a staff writer at SF Weekly and Red Herring, and his work hasappeared in New York Observer, New York Daily News and The Seattle Times. Hestudied at Stanford University and Columbia University Graduate School ofJournalism.
- David Cay Johnston
David Cay Johnston is an investigative journalist for "The New York Times" now focusing on taxes. He received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting "for his penetrating and enterprising reporting that exposed loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code, …
- Kim Zetter
Kim Zetter is an American freelance journalist in Oakland, California. She has written on a wide variety of subjects from the Kabbalah to dining out in San Francisco to Israel to cryptography and electronic voting, and her work has been published in newspapers and magazines all over the world, including the "Los Angeles Times", "San Francisco Chronicle", "Jerusalem Post", "San Jose Mercury News", "Detroit Free Press", …
- Diana Diamond
Diana Diamond is an American journalist who has edited a number of newspapers including the Palo Alto Daily News and currently is a columnist at the Palo Alto Weekly. At the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, she is editor of their magazine, Valley Life Quareterly, and a columnist and editorial writer for the Journal. Diamond began her career in journalism in the suburbs of Chicago, where she was a reporter, …
- Robert K. Elder
Robert K. Elder is an American writer best known for his profiles, film reviews, technology pieces and investigative stories in the "Chicago Tribune", most notably his debunking of the Del Close skull myth. A Montana native, Elder got his start in journalism by interviewing Ken Kesey for his high school newspaper. The author encouraged Elder to attend his alma mater, the University of Oregon, which Elder did two years later.
- Pedro Gomez
Pedro Gomez (born c. 1962) is a television reporter for ESPN's "SportsCenter" show. He is part of Baseball Writers Association of America Gomez spent his youth in Cuba and Miami, Florida. After graduating from college, he went on to cover the Oakland Athletics from 1990 to 1997 for "The Sacramento Bee" and "San Jose Mercury News" newspapers. During his tenure as a writer covering the Athletics, Gomez, a lifetime baseball fan, …
- David Willman
David Willman is an Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. He was born October 18, 1956 in Pasadena, California. Willman has worked for the "Los Angeles Times" Washington D.C Bureau and Orange County Edition, the "San Jose Mercury News", and the "Pasadena Star-News". Willman has won the following awards for his work: *National Press Club Journalism Award, 1999 *Investigative Reporters and Editors medal Award, 1997 and 1999 *George Polk Award, …
- Igor Olshansky
Igor Olshansky (born May 3, 1982 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) is the first Soviet-born player in the National Football League. Igor moved from Ukraine to San Francisco when he was 9 years old. Currently Olshansky wears jersey #99 for the Chargers.
- Kevin Cowherd
Kevin Cowherd is an American author, humorist and sportswriter who "predicted" the Loma Prieta Earthquake. Cowherd, a writer for the "Baltimore Sun" since 1987, is nationally syndicated by the "Los Angeles Times"-"Washington Post" news service, and "Last Call at the 7-Eleven" is a book of selected writings from Cowherd published by Bancroft Press. He lives with his wife and three children near Baltimore, Maryland, and in 1990, …
- Stephen Bloom
Stephen G. Bloom is an American journalist and professor of Journalism Studies at the University of Iowa, in Iowa City. He is married with a son. He has written for the "Los Angeles Times", the "San Jose Mercury News", the "Sacramento Bee" and the "Dallas Morning News". He also served as the national news editor at the "Latin America Daily Post". He studied at University of California at Berkeley, graduating with a B.A. in 1973.
- Andrew Dean Nystrom
Andrew Dean Nystrom is an author, journalist, editor, photographer and travel planning consultant specializing in responsible and sustainable adventure travel in Latin America and western North America. Prior to joining the Sales departments at Alaska Discovery and Mountain Travel Sobek, Nystrom was a full-time freelance travel writer for Fodor's and Lonely Planet Publications.
- Ariel Gore
Ariel Gore (born June 25, 1970, in Carmel, California) is a journalist and the author of several nonfiction books and a novel. She is the founding editor and publisher of "Hip Mama", an Alternative Press Award-winning publication covering the culture and politics of motherhood. The "San Jose Mercury News" has called her "Conservative America's worst nightmare." In 2000, …
- Madeleine Blais
Madeleine Blais is a United States journalist, author and professor in the University of Massachusetts Amherst's journalism department. As a reporter for the The Miami Herald, Blais earned the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1980 for "Zepp's Last Stand," a story about a self-declared pacifist and subsequently dishonorably discharged World War I veteran. Blais has worked at The Boston Globe (1971-1972), The Trenton Times (1974-1976) and The Miami Herald (1979-1987).
- James O. Goldsborough
James O. Goldsborough (born 1938) is an American journalist. He has worked for the San Francisco Examiner, Honolulu Advertiser, Arizona Republic, New York Herald Tribune, International Herald Tribune, Newsweek, San Jose Mercury News, and the San Diego Union-Tribune. He is a former Edward R. Murrow fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
- Ray Kassar
Raymond E. Kassar (born January 2, 1928) was president, and later CEO, of Atari from 1978 to 1983. He had previously been vice-president of Burlington Industries, a textile company. Ray Kassar was hired in February 1978 as president of Atari's consumer division by Warner Communications, who at the time owned Atari. By this time, rifts had begun to develop between the original Atari staff (most of whom had engineering backgrounds) and the new hires brought in by Warner (who, …
- Patrick Joseph McGrath
Patrick Joseph McGrath (b. July 11, 1945) is the second Roman Catholic Bishop of San Jose in California, USA. Known as P.J., McGrath was born in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, and attended St. John's Seminary in Waterford, where he was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1970. He earned a doctorate in Canon law from the Pontifical Lateran University in 1977.
- Frank C. Girardot
Frank C. Girardot (1961 in Detroit, Michigan) worked during the 1980s and 1990s as a copyboy, reporter and sportswriter for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, The San Gabriel Valley Tribune, The Pasadena Star-News and The Los Angeles Daily News.* Girardot's 1993 article on unsolved mysteries of the San Gabriel Valley prompted author James Ellroy to investigate the 1958 strangulation murder of Geneva Hilliker Ellroy, the writer's mother, …
- Timothy Taylor
Timothy Taylor is Managing Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, a quarterly academic journal produced at Macalester College and published by the American Economic Association. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Haverford College and a Master’s degree in Economics from Stanford University. At Stanford, he was winner of the award for excellent teaching in a large class (more than 30 students) given by the Associated Students of Stanford University.
- Jim Hummel
Jim Hummel is an American cartoonist who has worked for the "San Jose Mercury-News" and taught illustration at San Jose State University. He received the National Cartoonists Society Advertising and Illustration Award for 2002. He was also nominated for their Newspaper Illustration Award three times.
- Robert Lindsey
Robert Lindsey is a journalist and author of several true crime books, including The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage (1980), the story of Christopher John Boyce and Andrew Daulton Lee, who were both convicted of selling information to the Soviets. Lindsey worked as a reporter and editor at the San Jose Mercury-News and The New York Times, and also served as the Los Angeles bureau chief for The Times.
- San Jose Mercury-News
San Jose Mercury-News , Aug. 21 -- In an era when people invest billions of dollars searching for the next medical breakthrough, more people are turning to faith. While people have always prayed for good health, experts say the number who believe in divine healing is increasing, partly due to the influence of charismatic churches, one of the fastest-growing segments of Christianity.
- Katherine Corcoran
- Lipo Ching
- Elise Ackerman
Elise Ackerman is an Internet and Web 2.0 Reporter. She previously served as a news reporter. Previously, she reported from Cairo, Egypt during the war with Iraq in 2003. She was part of a team of reporters who won a 2003 Society of American Business Editors Award for a story about the computer industry.
- Dale Bryant
Dale Bryant - Executive Editor Dale Bryant joined the company in 1993 as editor of the Los Gatos Weekly-Times. In 1997, she also became editor of the Saratoga News. During her tenure with the Weekly-Times, the California Newspaper Publishers Association recognized the paper in a broad range of areas, including design, photography and editorial pages.
- Mark Boslet
- Therese Poletti
- Jon Fortt
- Deborah Gump
Dr. Deborah Gump , Print/Online Director
- Charlene Li
Charlene Li Principal Analyst – Devices, Media & Marketing, Forrester Research, Inc. As a principal analyst on the Devices, Media, & Marketing team, Charlene examines the ways new technology will affect how companies deliver information, content, and advertising, as well as how these changes will affect the businesses that provide these services.
- Janet Rae-Dupree
Rae-Dupree has been on staff at U.S. News & World Report, BusinessWeek, the L.A. Times, the San Jose Mercury News and a number of smaller publications. She also has done award-winning work for CIO Insight Magazine. Clips are available at http://www.raedupree.com. In addition to technology coverage, Rae-Dupree also offers: Business writing. Rae-Dupree was a University of Nevada Business Journalism Fellow in 1997, winning the Best Financial Analysis award. She has covered mergers and . . .
- Sam Diaz
I'm a husband and a dad and a big bro. I'm a tech geek by nature and journalist by trade. I'm a music lover and do-it-yourselfer. By day, I work in the big city, the nation's capital. But by night and weekend, I roam around the burbs. I'm a Raider fan and a news junkie and a gambler - poker and blackjack. I can't play craps. It's not my game. I prefer Heineken but will drink Bud Light - unless you're buying.
- Kara Andrade
Being a reporter is just a good excuse for me to be nosey and really figure out what's going on here. View photos, clips and stories here:.
- Marian Liu
I'm the pop music critic at The Seattle Times, a contributing writer for Source Magazine, and a segment producer for the Asian American television show Pacific Fusion. Please, by all means, hit me up if you want me to put something in the paper or have an event to highlight.
- Alex Terrazas
"Would I rather be feared or loved? Ummm, easy, both.