Oakland Local 10/19/2009
 
Oakland Local is a news & community hub for Oakland, CA focused on environmental, food, development and social justice issues that is launching this fall.  Its founder, Susan Mernit recieved a 2009 New Voices grant from J-Lab at American University to jumpstart the project. A former VP at AOL and Netscape, and a former Yahoo Senior Director, Mernit was the consulting program manager for The Knight News Challenge in 2008-09, as well as a consultant to organizations including Salon.com & TechSoup Global, where she led the re-design of their portal.  A popular trainer and speaker, Mernit works regularly with The Knight Digital Media Centerat USC's Annenberg School, and with The Maynard Institute, and is the Keynote program chair for the October 2009 Online News Association conference in San Francisco.

Oakland Local is launching this Fall.  Don't miss this opportunity to talk to Susan and her collaborators and see how you can get involved in this exciting new project.
 


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