Before joining New America, he was a reporter for eight years at the Los Angeles Times, where he covered state and presidential politics, education, labor, and the city of Compton. Previously, he covered the Justice Department for The Wall Street Journal. He began his career in 1994 as a reporter on the city desk of the Baltimore Sun, where he wrote about urban issues and the environment. His coverage of a down-on-its-luck neighborhood of former slaughterhouses earned him the incomparable title, “Bard of Pigtown.” His stories have appeared in The New Republic, The Washington Post, Politico, and Condé Nast Portfolio. He writes regularly on the web at NBC's Prop Zero, Fox and Hounds Daily, and The Daily Beast.
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He began his newspaper career as editorial page editor of the Oakland Tribune and, for nineteen years, was an editorial writer, columnist, and deputy editorial page editor at the Sacramento Bee, where he won the 2000 Best in the West award for his editorials on the Gray Davis administration. He later served as deputy treasurer of the state of California and was policy director for the 2006 California gubernatorial campaign of Phil Angelides. From 2007 through 2010 he was senior scholar at the New America Foundation.
His recent work on California issues has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, the Sacramento Bee, The California Journal of Politics and Policy, and The American Interest. He has been a visiting lecturer in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, and a visiting instructor at Stanford University.
He is the author of “Diplomacy Delayed: The Atomic Bomb and the Division of Korea, 1945,” in Child of Conflict: The Korean-American Relationship, 1945-53 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1983); co-author, with Micah Weinberg, of “Remapping the California Electorate,” in R. Jeffrey Lustig, ed., Remaking California: Reclaiming the Public Good (Berkeley: Heyday, 2010); and co-author, with Micah Weinberg, of “Public Affluence, Private Squalor: California’s Dual Pension Crisis.”
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Elizabeth Wu
Manager, California Media Relations
New America Foundation
(510) 295-9859
wu@newamerica.net
Lorraine Weston
Associate Director of Publicity
University of California Press
lweston at ucpress.edu