Senior Editor for Bay Area News spoke at MAC/SCHJ luncheon
Martin G. Reynolds, senior editor for community engagement, for the Bay Area News Group/Digital First Media, was the guest speaker at the Minorities and Communication/Scholastic Journalism divisions’ annual luncheon on Saturday, August 8.
The luncheon was held from 12:15 to 1:30 at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis Hotel.
The recipients of the Robert Knight Multicultural Award and the Lionel C. Barrow Jr. Award for Distinguished Achievement in Diversity Research and Education were recognized at the luncheon.
Reynolds is a former editor, managing editor and reporter for the Oakland Tribune. He began his career at the Tribune as an intern in 1995, and covered everything from homicides to economic development to quilting. He has overseen the implementation of a student news bureau program with San Francisco State University and the University of California-Berkeley. Reynolds has also brokered the creation of a media access center at the West Oakland branch of the public library. The center is part of the Tribune’s effort to approach community journalism in a new way, and to help make ethnic media and other media accessible to the public.
Reynolds has spearheaded numerous other innovative projects in the community, including serving as lead editor of the Chauncey Bailey Project, a media coalition continuing the work of slain Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey.
Among his many awards, Reynolds was named Innovator of the Year for 2012 in Digital First Media newsrooms for co-founding Oakland Voices, the Tribune's ground-breaking community storytelling project, and Oakland Effect, the Tribune's violence reporting fellowship that focuses on the impacts of trauma on the community. Oakland Voices has graduated more than 20 correspondents and published more than 200 stories online and in print.
Written by Frances Ward-Johnson | updated on Oct. 3, 2015 by the site webmaster.