UC Berkeley Journalism - Program - Business Reporting Faculty

Business Reporting Faculty and Lecturers

Lecturers

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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Marcia Parker (Lecturer)
Marcia Parker is director of the Bloomberg Business Reporting Program at the Graduate School of Journalism. She has been a reporter and editor for more than 20 years, starting out in the wire service before specializing in business, and covered corporate America, Wall Street, corporate finance and corporate governance. After moving to California in the late 80s, she became the Business Editor and later Managing Editor of the Contra Costa Times newspapers. Ms. Parker moved to the online media world, becoming Assistant Managing Editor of the personal finance website, quicken.com, and then Director of Programming at AOL Time Warner, where she launched a new site and channel for entrepreneurs. Ms. Parker earned her master's degree in international affairs at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of Tri Valley magazine, a regional publication, and was the founding editor of Nirvana Woman magazine. She also is a co-founder of the World Free Press Institute, which conducts media training in developing countries around the world.

Matthew Richtel (Lecturer)
Since 2000, Matt Richtel has worked as a technology reporter for the New York Times out of its San Francisco Bureau. He is the author of the novel 'Hooked,' a thriller published in June of 2007, and the writer of the daily syndicated comic strip "Rudy Park." When not writing, he is playing tennis, napping, rooting for the Cal Bears, perfecting his guacamole recipe and hanging out with his wife.
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Siri Schubert (Lecturer)
Siri was Investigative Fellow at the J-School in 2007-2008, and a veteran writer on business and technology for a host of U.S. and European publications, including Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, and Business 2.0.

Previous Instructors

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.