Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism - Program

Business Reporting Faculty and Lecturers

Lecturers

Marcia Parker (Lecturer)
Marcia Parker is a veteran business journalist who has worked for print and online media companies including the Contra Costa Times, AOL, and Yahoo, and is now working as a manager in San Francisco for a company called Globe7 that runs leading social networking web sites in Asia. She ran the business reporting program and taught at the J School for nearly a decade. Marcia also founded two magazines, and is still editor of one of them, a regional magazine called Living East Bay.

Matthew Richtel (Lecturer)
Matt Richtel is a journalist, novelist and cartoonist. Since 2000, he has worked as a technology reporter for the New York Times out of its San Francisco Bureau. Prior to joining to Times, he was a freelance writer for four years, working for the Times, and an array of online and print publications. He is the author of 'Hooked,' a fast-paced thriller about "love and other addictions" that was published in June of 2007. He writes the daily syndicated comic strip "Rudy Park."
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Siri Schubert (Lecturer)
Siri Schubert is a veteran reporter who has spent a good part of her career in an international setting as a foreign correspondent for Handelsblatt, the leading business daily in Germany. She won the 2004 Koerber Foundation journalism award on "Living together: Integration and Diversity" (shared first prize) and has contributed a chapter to “Seeds of Hope (Hoffnung saehen)”, a book that illustrates immigration issues in Europe through life stories of immigrants. Siri was selected as one of the participants of the Journalist Alumni Study Trip: Berlin-Ankara/Istanbul 2005, organized by the Fulbright Commission, the German Marshall Fund and the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship, among others. Being from Europe and having lived on both sides of the Atlantic (USA, Germany, England) with parts of her family living in France and Switzerland, she brings unique perspectives and insights to this area of study.

Previous Instructors

David Charron (Lecturer)
Charron has a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford and his MBA from Haas. He joined the faculty in 2003 after having served as CEO of 6Gear Inc. and Osner Inc. Charron has also consulted for various startups, serves as Executive Director of the Berkeley Entrepreneurship Laboratory and is a Mentor to the Global Social Venture Competition at Haas. Charron teaches several courses at Haas including, Entrepreneurship & Innovation Entrepreneurship Workshop for Start-Ups Life as an Entrepreneur, Business Model Innovation for New Ventures.
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Neil Chase (Lecturer)
Neil Chase is managing editor at CBS MarketWatch.com in San Francisco. MarketWatch's 120 journalists in 9 bureaus worldwide produce breaking financial news around the clock on the Web, on television and radio, and in print. He is a member of the board of directors of the Online News Association. Chase spent five years as a professor at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, where he launched the graduate and undergraduate new-media journalism programs and was the school's director of technology. Before joining the Northwestern faculty he worked as an editor at The San Francisco Examiner and The Arizona Republic and helped to launch a Russian-American newspaper that was a joint effort of Hearst and Izvestia. He has consulted for dozens of news and technology companies and written for magazines ranging from Time and Digital Chicago to Nightclub and Bar Journal.

Ann Grimes (Lecturer)
Grimes is the deputy bureau chief in San Francisco for The Wall Street Journal.

Katie Hafner (Lecturer)
Katie Hafner is a reporter for The New York Times. She has written four books: "Cyperbunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier" (with John Markoff); "The House at the Bridge: A Story of Modern Germany"; "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet" (with Matthew Lyon); and "The Well: A Story of Love, Death and Real Life in the Seminal Online Community". She is currently at work on a fifth book. She has also worked at Business Week and Newsweek. She has been writing about technology since 1983.

Andreas Kluth (Lecturer)
Andreas has been a correspondent for The Economist since 1997. He currently covers technology and other stories from the San Francisco Bay Area, where he has been based since 2003. In his previous beat, Andreas was based in Hong Kong for four years, covering primarily business and finance in China and South-East Asia. Before that, Andreas was based in London, covering global stories in corporate finance, investment and insurance. Before becoming a journalist, Andreas was an investment banker for two years at JP Morgan in London. He has a Masters degree in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Arts from Williams College, Massachusetts. Andreas grew up in Germany but moved to America during high school. He is married with one daughter, and practices Ashtanga Yoga almost daily.

Joseph Menn (Lecturer)
Menn is author of "All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster," published in April 2003 by Crown Business and hailed by Newsweek as "the best seat yet to the online music revolution." He covers Silicon Valley and Microsoft for the Los Angeles Times, which he joined more than five years ago. He was a finalist for a 2003 Gerald Loeb Award, the most prestigious in business journalism, for his Microsoft coverage and is a past recipient of a `Best in Business' award from the Society of American Business Writers & Editors. He is co-author of The People vs. Big Tobacco: How the States Took on the Cigarette Giants (1998) and worked for Bloomberg News and The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer. He grew up outside Boston, earned an A.B. in English from Harvard and lives in San Francisco.

Harley Shaiken (Lecturer)
Carnegie Fellow Professor Harley Shaiken is the Director of the Center for Latin American Studies and an expert on labor and trade issues. Professor Shaiken writes widely on both issues and is frequent commentator for the News Hour on PBS.