Jessica Blough

Class of 2026

Jessica Blough is a multimedia journalist interested in news reporting and feature writing that creates compelling experiences for readers. As an editor and a writer, her goal is to facilitate reader involvement in journalism that feels immersive and personal.

She has experience reporting for both hyperlocal and international audiences. She seeks opportunities to incorporate short video, social media, and interactives into traditional narrative reporting.

Selected reporting work: 

• Slow start at Richmond’s new Mobile Vendor Plaza has food sellers worried
• A parklet and a smoker have created an uproar in Point Richmond, where pub owner says the city did an about-face on his permits
• San Pablo voters will decide if cannabis businesses can set up shop
• Some Contra Costa residents will get $1,000 monthly under a new county program
• A Book Club for the Girls
• A Fantasy World Returns
• Sexual harassment, domestic violence increased at Tufts during pandemic
• Tufts revises Title IX, Sexual Misconduct Policy
• S.1401 seeks to make Massachusetts a safe community, December hearing date set

Selected essays and reviews: 

• Book review: Olive Days by Jessica Elisheva Emerson
• Book review: Perfume and Pain by Anna Dorn
• Book review: Rabbit Hole by Kate Brody
• Book review: All-Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky

Selected interviews: 

• With Rita Bullwinkel
• With Elaine Castillo
• With Sarah Manguso
• With Victoria Patterson (video)

Selected social media and multimedia work: 

• San Francisco’s Prop K
• Santa Cruz’s monarch butterflies
• The best cioppino in San Francisco
• California’s reputation
• Octavia Butler’s future
• A tour of Percival Everett’s painting studio
• Why does LA hate SF?
• Reintroducing the grizzly bear
• Anaïs Nin’s double life
• Portland’s stolen car vigilantes
• On the keys at Dodger Stadium
• Mike Tyson’s literary heroes

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