Joe Rogers
I work in Silicon Valley on a team that trains machines to understand and respond intelligently to the words people say. A good newsperson knows a little bit about a lot of things, and it’s exciting to apply that breadth of knowledge to systems that rely on speech technology and natural language processing.
Imagine jumping from writing copy for the voices coming out of a radio speaker to engineering the code that lets a smart speaker, or any device, decipher the voices it hears and answer with words of its own accompanied by some type of action.
I spent more than fifteen years at the KCBS editors desk, doing whatever it took to get news on the radio, and online, quickly and accurately. Directing live coverage of crisis moments such as the Asiana crash at SFO, the 2014 Napa quake, and the Wine Country fires in 2017 were just a few of the high adrenaline moments. The rest came in increments of 30 to 60 seconds, day after day, among a group of journalists committed to covering the many flavors of local that make up the Bay Area.
EDUCATION
San Jose State University, M.A. Linguistics; cert. computational linguistics., 2016
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, M.J. 2004
UC Berkeley, B.A. Religious Studies, 1999
City College of San Francisco, A.A. in General Studies, 1997
EMPLOYERS
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Google (via Adecco)
Linguistic project manager -
KCBS All-News 106.9-FM & 740-AM
(CBS News Radio / Entercom)
Editor -
Dr. Clue Teambuilding
Office manager -
State Bar of California
Membership services -
City College of San Francisco
Developmental writing and ESL tutor
AWARDS & HONORS
Various regional awards for breaking news coverage of tiger attacks, jetliner crashes, big fires and earthquakes. I know how to keep people calm and on task during chaos.
MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS
SAG-AFTRA, former shop steward and board member
REPORTING INTERESTS
Business, Criminal Justice, Food, Gender/Sexuality, Health, Immigration, Politics, Science, TechnologyMEDIA PLATFORMS
Audio Journalism, Multimedia, Narrative Writing