Michael Stoll - 2008 Fellow

MICHAEL STOLL
Project Director
The Public Press Project

Michael Stoll is a journalist and educator who spent most of his career in newspapers. He is currently the volunteer project director of the Public Press Project, a San Francisco-based community exploration of noncommercial models for newspapers and interactive news. He teaches editing and reporting classes at San Jose State University, where he is also associate director of Grade the News, an independent media watchdog project. Last year the two-person Grade the News team won two national journalism awards: the Mongerson Prize for Investigative Reporting on the Media from the Medill School of Journalism, and the Professional Freedom and Responsibility Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Before that, he was city editor, editorial page editor and investigative reporter at the San Francisco Examiner. His work has also appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Christian Science Monitor, the Hartford Courant, The San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Magazine and The New York Times. His freelance reporting now focuses on media ethics and environmental issues. He is secretary of the board of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Northern California chapter and an organizer of the collaborative Chauncey Bailey Project in Oakland, Calif. He is a 1998 alumnus of Columbia Journalism School. He lives in San Francisco.