{"id":2642,"date":"2007-08-10T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/dc\/jtm-dc-chris-obrien\/"},"modified":"2007-08-10T16:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T16:19:00","slug":"jtm-dc-chris-obrien","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/dc\/jtm-dc-chris-obrien\/","title":{"rendered":"Jtm-dc-Chris OBrien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"mailto:cobrien@mercurynews.com\">cobrien@mercurynews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nextnewsroom.blogspot.com\/\">Chris O&#8217;Brien<\/a> returned in July to a job as a economic reporter for the &quot;San Jose&quot; Calif. &quot;Mercury News&quot; after a one-year sabbatical during which he was a stay-at-home dad in Cambridge, Mass. In May, he won a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newschallenge.org\/winners\/obrien\">$25,000 Knight News Challenge grant<\/a> to plan an &quot;ideal newsroom&quot; at Duke University for the digital news era and create an online resource for student newspapers and other news organizations looking to bring their facilities up to date with new-media trends.   He has been a working journalist for 16 years, including the past eight the &quot;Mercury News&quot;. A 1991 Duke graduate, he worked for the independent, student-run daily, &quot;The Chronicle&quot; and later wrote for &quot;The News &amp; Observer&quot; of Raleigh, N.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cobrien@mercurynews.com Chris O&#8217;Brien returned in July to a job as a economic reporter for the &quot;San Jose&quot; Calif. &quot;Mercury News&quot; after a one-year sabbatical during which he was a stay-at-home dad in Cambridge, Mass. In May, he won a $25,000 Knight News Challenge grant to plan an &quot;ideal newsroom&quot; at Duke University for the digital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2642","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}