Louis Freedberg
Louis Freedberg "is an editorial writer at the San Francisco Chronicle where his major areas of coverage include immigration, education and children’s issues. He has worked at the Chronicle since 1991 as a staff writer covering education and higher education; as a correspondent in The Chronicle’s Washington D.C. bureau during most of the Clinton presidency; and as a senior writer for The Chronicle's Sunday Insight section. In the San Francisco Bay Area, he helped establish Youth News (now Youth Radio), an award-winning national media project training high school students as reporters and was a correspondent for Pacific News Service. As a foreign correspondent, Freedberg has reported from diverse regions of the world ranging from Southern Africa and Central America to the former Soviet Union and Cambodia. In 1990 he received a Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University, where he studied race relations within the youth culture. In 1999, he received an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship to look at the unintended consequences of U.S. immigration policies over the past several decades. Born and raised in South Africa, Freedberg came to the United States in 1968 for higher education. He graduated form Yale University in child psychology and received a doctorate in cultural anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley." [1]
"The California Media Collaborative was established in May 2007 by Louis Freedberg, in association with the Commonwealth Club of California." [2]
"He was also a fellow of the Institute of Justice and Journalism at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication. He spent a year as a Visiting Media Fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington D.C. Freedberg was the executive director of the United States South Africa Sister Community Project, which established links with communities in the United States with 12 black communities in South Africa threatened with removal by the apartheid regime. He graduated from Yale University in child psychology and received a doctorate in cultural anthropology from UC Berkeley." [3]
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- ↑ Racial Justice Fellows, 2005-2006, USC Annenberg, accessed August 19, 2008.
- ↑ About, California Media Collaborative, accessed August 19, 2008.
- ↑ History (Cached), California Media Collaborative, accessed August 19, 2008.
