Christine Schiavo

Lecturer

Local News Editor - Investigative Reporting Program

Christine Schiavo is local news editor at Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program. She leads coverage of Berkeley Journalism’s two community news sites, Richmond Confidential and Oakland North. She works closely with journalism students to produce a broad range of stories about issues of vital importance to Richmond and Oakland and develop investigative projects.

Schiavo comes to the IRP from The Morning Call in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where she was senior content editor for enterprise and investigations from 2007 to 2021. In that role, she assigned and edited the stories of about 30 reporters.  Three investigative projects she directed won the Pennsylvania News Media Association’s G. Richard Dew public service award, including an investigation of a 2011 gas explosion that killed five people and destroyed half a city block.

Her reporting career also includes seven years at The Morning Call, six years at The Philadelphia Inquirer and four years at the Fairmont, Minnesota, Sentinel.

Schiavo also has taught courses in news writing, reporting and editing as an adjunct instructor at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Cedar Crest College in Allentown.

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MEDIA PLATFORMS

Investigative journalism