Michael Stoll (michael – DOT – stoll – AT SYMBOL – sjsu – DOT – edu) is
spearheading the Public Press Initiative, a project to study
noncommercial models for newspapers, in collaboration with Independent
Arts & Media of San Francisco. Stoll teaches journalism at San Jose
State University, where he has also served as associate director of
Grade the News (http://www.gradethenews.org), a San Francisco Bay Area
media-watchdog project.
With colleague John McManus he is the winner of
two recent journalism awards: the Professional Freedom and
Responsibility Award from the Association for Education in Journalism
and Mass Communication (2006) and a citation of excellence from the
Mongerson Prize for Investigative Reporting on the Media from
Northwestern University Journalism School (2006).
Stoll is a regular
contributor to SF Weekly on media issues. He previously worked as a
reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Hartford Courant, and as
city editor, investigative reporter and editorial-page editor at the San
Francisco Examiner. Stoll is currently secretary of the board of the
Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.