After leaving the San Jose Mercury News, Joanne spent nearly five years reporting, writing and rewriting this book about a San Jose charter school that prepares underachievers, mostly from Mexican immigrant families, for four-year colleges.
The book got a rave review in the Nov. 17 Wall Street Journal.
Joanne writes an education blog at JoanneJacobs.com and freelances for newspapers, magazines and web sites.
She lives in Los Altos with her future husband, John Wakerly ('74, engineering PhD.)
The book is the first systematic study of the orientations of American elites to the multifaceted processes of globalization. The book also contains a unique look at the attitudes of American elites before and after 9/11, revealing that this important event had surprisingly little impact on elite support for multilatleralism in U.S. foreign policy.
AMR is the long-awaited sequel to his earlier ART OF ROCK: POSTERS FROM PRESLEY TO PUNK (Abbeville Press, 1987, 1990).
AMR is 492 pages and has over 1,800 colorplates, detailing the best concert posters from 1985 - present. AOR covered the period 1954 - 1987, and is regarded, worldwide, as 'the bible' on rock posters.
The new book received positive reviews from hundreds of publications, including Newsweek, the NY Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, the Library Journal, and Playboy.
Paul will be lecturing frequently this year, at college campuses around the nation, utilizing a presentation of art from both books.
The project currently has over 5,500 members and some are already making the move to NH, where Gov. Craig Benson has welcomed them. More info is at www.freestateproject.org.
Her 130-page essay, titled, “May the Winds of Freedom Blow: Student Newspaper Roles, Free Speech Principles and Legal Theory for Improved Relations Between Stanford Administrators and Stanford Daily Editors,” is meant to serve as a practical guide for future editors.
Megan argues that even though Daily staffers produce the newspaper with no oversight from administrators, there is no consistent policy on speech at Stanford and thus the future of student journalism is uncertain. Megan evaluates the roles of college newspapers and the rights of student journalists to urge Stanford administrators to champion the full exercise of free speech on campus.
To read Megan’s thesis, go to http://www.dailyalumni.org/thesis.rtf.
Who would have thought a summer post at The Daily would become a real-world gig -- and at a fast-growing newspaper in the LA market? A dream job come true.
Nevertheless, she found time to pop over to Saddam Hussein's main palace in the capital, and take a tour of the ruins at Babylon. She also had a reunion with former Daily colleague and now Washington Post Baghdad Bureau Chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran. The weather was fine--a balmy 130 most days. Julie reports that between his numerous scoops, Rajiv spends his time holding forth at the BBQ in the back yard of the Post house, which boasts a P-shaped pool. Rajiv says hello to all his Daily friends.
Through nearly 200 complete front pages from The Daily, 100 YEARS OF HEADLINES tells a rich, vibrant story of Big Games, wars, student protests, social life, Nobel prizes, NCAA championships, medical advances, university politics, and much, much more!
The book is edited by Ken Fenyo '88 with an introduction by Phil Taubman '71, Washington bureau chief of The New York Times.
After a year of writing for newspapers in Boston, Brian came back to California in 2002 to write his children's book, and work as the senior researcher to fellow Daily alum George Anders on Anders' New York Times Bestseller, Perfect Enough, about Carly Fiorina and Hewlett-Packard.
Hacker is earning her master's degree in journalism but gets to take cool classes in other areas, including public policy and political science.
She also works for the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (www.nicar.org) to further her addiction to databases, spreadsheets and statistics. Other journalists seeking to embrace their inner nerd are welcome to contact Hacker (hacker@stanfordalumni.org) to learn more about CAR and useful stuff from NICAR.
Besides managing the dailyalumni.org and a number of other hobbies, Jock runs his own Internet company; Deb runs a program for the District's mayor.
They do not yet have plans for a wedding.
There are still lots of job listings, but it also:
He's pleased to have found a job that perfectly combines his passions for geeky media news, cocktails, schmoozing, and speaking in front of captive audiences (he'll emcee some Mediabistro events), and he hopes John Wagner will now stop pestering him to post a newsbrief on this Web site.
Chris is leaving the Belo Distinguished Chair of Journalism at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. While Chris headed The Spokesman-Review, the newspaper won awards for civic journalism, design, photography, sports coverage, financial, national and environmental reporting and general excellence.
If you're curious about what it's like to have a baby, this is the cheapest way, most pain-free way of finding out. And there's way more barfing than sex, so it's not even that embarrassing to read.
For more info, check out Martha's Web site.
Art is a freelance editorial and commercial photographer, based in Los Angeles and a regular contributor to Vanity Fair, In Style, O, Town & Country and Premiere.
His website is www.artstreiber.com.
The school is one of the mayor's top education and technology priorities. Jock is working with Steve Crocker, a technologist who is one of the early developers of the Internet, to develop a strategic plan for this magnet high school.
It's Jock's first public-sector work and with the creation of this Web site, he currently works in technology for a dot-com, a dot-org and dot-gov.
Jim's appointment expires in December and, in order to remain on the bench, he must win a contested, partisan election in Chicago's north and northwest suburbs in November.
It's the major leagues' official website, but they want him to cover the team as if he were still working for a newspaper.
Mitch, a career law clerk to a federal judge in Los Angeles, had to overcome his Stanford Axe Committee roots in deciding to attend law school across the bay at U.C. Berkeley (JD '93); he completed his third year of law school at Harvard. After seven years of work for large private law firms, Mitch turned to public service, working as Assistant City Attorney in Ventura prior to accepting his current clerkship in Los Angeles.
One is Americans without Law: A History of Race, Anthropology, and Citizenship (New York University Press), which was awarded the President’s Book Award from the Social Science History Association. The other is Black Trials: The Legal Drama of Race and Citizenship from the New York Conspiracy to Mumia Abu-Jamal (Alfred A. Knopf), for which he was awarded a year-long fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Grushkin previously authored Grateful Dead: The Official Book of the Dead Heads (Wm Morrow, NY, 1983), the first ever use of the Dead's legendary archives, now in its 14th printing.
This year, he will co-author The Art of Modern Rock, the sequel to The Art of Rock: Posters from Presley to Punk (Abbeville, NY, 1987, 1990). AOR is the standard work in the field, the history of rock thru concert posters beginning in the early '50s (500 pages, 2,000 colorplates). AOMR will cover the last fifteen years of concert posters.
This year is Gruskin's 18th year in rock & roll merchandising. He is now National Sales Director for NuVista, a div. of Quantum Color, one of the largest printers in the US (they print, among much else, nearly all the tour books and posters for the major rock bands worldwide).