Nick Miller

Nick Miller

Lecturer

Nick Miller is an award-winning journalist with more than a dozen years of newsroom experience. Most recently, he served as editor-in-chief of the East Bay Express, where he edited a variety of news, investigative, and feature pieces, including Darwin BondGraham and Ali Winston’s George Polk Award-winning coverage of the Oakland Police Department’s sexual-misconduct scandal. Miller previously worked for 12 years at the Sacramento News & Review and oversaw that paper’s First Amendment legal battle with former mayor and NBA all-star Kevin Johnson. In 2017, the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists recognized that paper’s work on the K.J. series with a James Madison Freedom of Information Award. In 2016, SN&R also won the California Newspaper Publishers Association’s “General Excellence” prize for best weekly publication in the state. Miller has earned several CNPA awards for both writing and editing, and three national Association of Alternative Newsmedia honors for reporting on homelessness and free-speech issues.