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Paul Grabowicz

Assistant Dean, Adjunct Professor,
Director of the New Media Program

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Phone: (510) 642-3310

Paul Grabowicz directs the New Media Program at the Graduate School of Journalism and teaches classes in multimedia reporting, new media publishing and computer assisted reporting.

He is co-author of "California Inc.," a book about how the entrepreneurial spirit shaped the politics, culture and economy of California, and has been a contributor to the E-Media Tidbits group Weblog on online publishing.

A professional journalist for more than 25 years, he spent most of his career as the investigative reporter at The Oakland Tribune. He also served as night city editor and acting city editor and developed an early prototype of a Web site for the paper (it was rejected).

A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology, he began his journalism career in 1973 working for local papers in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the Bay Guardian. He has written for publications such as the Washington Post, Esquire magazine, The Village Voice and Newsday.

In 1995 he began setting up the New Media Program at the Graduate School of Journalism. That same year he launched J-JOBS, a journalism jobs digest distributed on the Internet, which evolved into the J-JOBS online journalism job bank. He also was involved in creating a Multimedia Reporting & Convergence resources site and the CAL-FOI First Amendment archive, both at the Graduate School of Journalism's Web site. He also runs an e-mail discussion list on freedom-of-information issues.

Articles by Paul Grabowicz

Blogging on J-School Video Game Project
New Media Program Director Paul Grabowicz is posting updates on the "Saving 7th Street" video game project to the Idea Lab weblog. The game is a collaboration of J-School and Architecture students to re-create Oakland's old 7th Street jazz and blues club scene as a virtual world.
Posted January 2, 2008

Oakland Jazz & Blues Clubs Video Game
New Media Program Director Paul Grabowicz writes in an article for the 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network about a class project by the Journalism School and the Architecture School to do a video game recreation of Oakland's famed jazz and blues club scene of the 1940s and 1950s.
Posted October 9, 2006

Privacy Practices and Policies at Online Publications
For Journalism Studies, Adjunct Professor Paul Grabowicz co-authored an article about a research project on how media company Web sites deal with privacy issues like the use of browser cookies.
Posted August 17, 2005

The Inconvenient Boss
In an essay published at Poynter Online, Adjunct Professor Paul Grabowicz honors Leroy Aarons, crusading former Oakland Tribune editor, who died November 28.
Posted December 6, 2004

E-Media Tidbits
Adjunct Professor Paul Grabowicz is a contributor to the group Weblog E-Media Tidbits.
Posted December 2, 2004

Weblogs Bring Journalists into a Larger Community
In an article in the Fall 2003 Nieman Reports, Adjunct Professor Paul Grabowicz writes about how Weblogs could help restore the media's credibility with the public.
Posted September 1, 2003

Points to Click
Adjunct Professor Paul Grabowicz wrote a regular column in the Online Journalism Review on Internet resources for journalists.
Posted April 9, 2003

Privacy Polices at Online Media Sites
For the Online Journalism Review, Adjunct Professor Paul Grabowicz writes about a Ford-Foundation-funded study on which he was co-investigator.
Posted February 14, 2003

Basic Skills and Emerging Issues in Journalism
In the Winter 2002 Nieman Reports, Adjunct Professor Paul Grabowicz writes about lessons learned from a class he co-taught on Weblogs.
Posted November 30, 2002

Books by Paul Grabowicz

"California Inc."

Classes with Paul Grabowicz

Computer Assisted Reporting, description of Fall 2006 course.
Introductory Multimedia Reporting, description of Fall 2006 course.
Multimedia Reporting and Convergence, Web site for the Introductory Multimedia Reporting class.
Oakland Jazz & Blues Clubs Virtual Reality Project, description of Fall 2006 course.
Introductory Multimedia Reporting, description of Spring 2006 course.
Oakland Jazz & Blues Clubs Virtual Reality Project, description of Spring 2006 course.
Computer Assisted Reporting, description of Fall 2005 course.
Introductory Multimedia Reporting, description of Fall 2005 course.
Introductory Multimedia Reporting, description of Spring 2005 course.
Computer Assisted Reporting, description of Fall 2004 course.
Introductory Multimedia Reporting, description of Fall 2004 course.
Internet & Freedom of Expression in China, description of Spring 2004 course.
Introductory Multimedia Reporting, description of Spring 2004 course.
Creating the Berkeley China Internet Weblog, description of Fall 2003 course.
Computer Assisted Reporting, description of Fall 2003 course.
Introductory Multimedia Reporting, description of Fall 2003 course.
Multimedia Skills, syllabus for Spring 2003 course.
Creating an Intellectual Property Weblog, syllabus for Fall 2002 course.
bIPlog, the Weblog created for the Intellectual Property Weblog course.
Computer Assisted Reporting, syllabus for Fall 2002 course.
Multimedia Skills, syllabus for Fall 2002 course.
Multimedia Skills, syllabus for Spring 2002 course.
Computer Assisted Reporting, syllabus for Fall 2001 course.
Multimedia Skills, syllabus for Fall 2001 course.
New Media Publishing: Journalism and Business Strategies, syllabus for Spring 2001 course.
Reporting the News, syllabus for Fall 2000 introductory reporting course.
Bay Area Tech Reports, a Web site featuring stories students wrote for the Fall 2000 Reporting the News course.
Computer Assisted Reporting, syllabus for Fall 2000 course.
Journalism and Business Models in New Media Publishing, syllabus for Spring 2000 course.
Computer Assisted Reporting, syllabus for Spring 2000 course.
Computer Assisted Reporting, syllabus for Fall 1999 course.
Journalism and Business Models in New Media Publishing, syllabus for Spring 1999 course.
Election Night '98, stories students wrote for Paul Grabowicz' Fall 1998 Reporting the News introductory reporting class.

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