Broadcasting & Journalism
| Joel Bartlett Former TV meteorologist During his career as an Emmy-winning weathercaster, he quipped that the fog at SF State does not come "on little cat feet" but on "heavy panther paws." |
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| Ken Bastida News anchor This CBS Eyewitness News co-anchor received a 2004 Emmy Award for his "Inside the Middle East" series along with eight Emmy nominations during his tenure at the station. |
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| Stan Bunger News anchor The popular anchor at San Francisco's KCBS Radio says that his professors, the late Harb Morgan and Benjamin Draper, Spencer Michels and Ron Compesi, helped him start a successful broadcasting career. |
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| Tim Cahill Adventure writer The adventure writer, author of "Jaquars Ripped My Flesh" and "Hold the Enlightenment: More Travel, Less Bliss," once told an interviewer he has the "best job in journalism." |
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| Steve Centanni Television correspondent This national correspondent for the FOX News Channel has reported on numerous global news stories and events. His first on-air gig was at KBRG Radio, "giant 88 at San Francisco State." |
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| Elaine Corral News anchor/actress This Emmy-winning alumna brought us the news for nearly 20 years on KTVU but gave it all up for her first love, acting. She has appeared in nine films. |
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| Lisa Davis Investigative reporter This winner of the prestigious George Polk Award has never forgotten the advice she got from one of her journalism professors: "If your mother says she loves you, check it out." |
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| Nguyen Qui Duc Radio host/producer Former host of Pacific Time on KQED public radio, he remembers his Radio and TV professors as serious, not stuffy -- especially Rick Houlberg, "a fun professor with an easy attitude but tremendous knowledge of the industry." |
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| Dina Ruiz Eastwood News anchor/TV host/stay-at-home mom Best known as a news anchor for KSBW in Salinas, this radio and television grad acted in the movies "True Crime" and "Blood Work" and hosted "Candid Camera" before she starred in the E! reality TV show "Mrs. Eastwood & Company." |
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| Ben Fong-Torres Rock journalist One of rock's premiere journalists, he edited the Daily Gater during the Summer of Love era, when the campus was alive with political protest and psychedelic sounds of groups like the Jefferson Airplane. More... |
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| Mike Galanos News anchor As news anchor of CNN's Headline News Now, this BECA grad brings national and world news reports into living rooms across the country. |
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| Ted Griggs Television executive The winner of several Northern California Emmys, he was a sophomore at SF State when he landed a job as a sports producer at KRON. Today he is the President of Comcast SportsNet Bay Area. |
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| Kimberly Hunt News anchor A former researcher for Peter Jennings and associate producer for ABC's Monday Night Football, Hunt is an Emmy-winning news anchor at San Diego's KGTV. |
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| Sterling James Disc jockey The sultry-sounding Bay Area disc jockey, known for sassy one-liners and interviews with some of the biggest names in music, cut her broadcast teeth during a weekly on-air slot at campus station KSFS. |
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| Cheryl Jennings News anchor This KGO news anchor has won the prestigious Gracie Allen Award and four Northern California Emmys. |
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| Adair Lara Author/teacher An award-winning San Francisco Chronicle columnist for 12 years, now a writing instructor, she marks her students' strongest sentences in highlighter so that "everybody has some lemon-striped passage to feel proud of." She got the idea from former Professor Leonard Wolf. More... |
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| Dave McElhatton News anchor He got his first job in broadcasting two weeks out of SF State and went on to become one of the Bay Area's best-loved TV newsmen, anchoring the evening slot at KPIX for many years. |
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| Al Martinez Newspaper columnist This Golden Gater editor had to leave SF State before graduating to fight in the Korean War, but it hasn't seemed to hurt his career any. He has earned three Pulitzer Prizes as well as the moniker, "The Bard of LA." |
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| Eric Newton Senior adviser to the president, Knight Foundation This journalism grad was managing editor of the Oakland Tribune when the newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize. He went on to create and coordinate the content for the Newseum, the nation's first museum of news. |
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| Michael Moss Journalist/author This reporter at The New York Times earned the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for his investigation of the dangers of contaminated meat. |
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| Malou Nubla TV host This energetic Bay Area TV personality broke into the broadcast business after telling an interviewer, "If I don't get this job, my dad's going to kill me." The two-time Emmy Award winner hosts "The Malou Show" on KTVU. |
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| Carter B. Smith Radio personality When DJ Carter Smith was studying radio and television broadcasting in the late 50's, TV was so new SF State didn't even own one yet. That didn't hold him back. He appeared on every television station in the Bay Area during his fifty year career. |
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| Frank Somerville News anchor This broadcasting major shocked a television audience by proposing to his girlfriend live on Oakland's KTVU, where he has worked for more than a decade and currently co-anchors the evening newscasts. |
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| De Tran Newspaper publisher/editor In 1975 he left Vietnam for the U.S. where his first job was selling the San Francisco Examiner on a street corner. After graduating from the journalism department he established Viet Mercury, the first Vietnamese newspaper published by a U.S. media company. He is currently the publisher and editor of VTimes. |
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| Jose Antonio Vargas Journalist This political science graduate was just four years out of college when he won a 2008 Pulitzer Prize as part of a team of reporters at The Washington Post that covered the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech. More... |
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| Gregory Vistica Journalist/author The reporter who broke the Tailhook sexual abuse scandal and exposed ex-Sen. Bob Kerrey's role in a Vietnam war massacre got his start in journalism editing the Golden Gater. More... |
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| Jan Wahl Film critic Vancouver Magazine called this radio/TV grad "San Francisco's sharp-witted solo answer to Siskel and Ebert." On KRON she sports a new hat each week as she serves up show-biz scoops and film critiques. The two-time Emmy winner first worked at the station as an undergrad. More... |
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| Annie Wells News photographer Her photography professor, Ken Kobre, advised her to arrive early, stay late, run fast and jump high. His advice paid off. In 1997, she won a Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography. |
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| Linda Yee Reporter This journalism graduate and reporter at CBS station KPIX 5 has earned six Emmys for news, including a National Emmy for her coverage of the 2009 Oscar Grant protests and riots in Oakland. |
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| Kim Yonenaka TV host This on-air reporter and former co-host of "49ers Total Access" is no stranger to athletic competition. She holds the sixth-place record for career points for Gator women's swimming. |