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Linda Jue
New Voices in Independent Journalism
222 Sutter St., Suite 600
San Francisco CA 94108
415-321-1733
nvijdirector@gmail.com
Linda Jue is founder and director of New Voices in Independent Journalism, a national journalism initiative that identifies and mentors investigative journalists of color to cover public interest/social policy issues. She is also the former associate director of the Independent Press Association, where she directed several national journalism programs.
She is the former director of San Francisco State University's Community Press Consortium, an advanced professional training program for reporters and editors working in the community and ethnic press. Linda is a former associate of the Center for Investigative Reporting and a former editor at San Francisco Focus magazine.
Her work has appeared in San Francisco Focus , Los Angeles Times Syndicate, Toronto Globe and Mail, GEO, MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, PBS’ Frontline and other outlets. She is a former No. Calif. correspondent for C-SPAN. Linda is president of the NorCal chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Jue directs New Voices in Independent Journalism (NVIJ), a national journalism initiative aimed at mentoring a diverse pool of independent journalists who can bring the emerging voices and perspectives of the new majority, as well as the next generation of youth, to investigative/enterprise reporting on social justice issues.
NVIJ consists of the George Washington Williams Fellowship, a midcareer mentoring and fellowship program for journalists of color who want to pursue in-depth/investigative reporting on social justice issues; and the Campus Journalism Project (CJP), which mentors student journalists and their campus publications, as well as student activists interested in social justice journalism.
Linda is a former associate of the Center for Investigative Reporting and a former editor at San Francisco Focus magazine. Her work has appeared in San Francisco Focus , Los Angeles Times Syndicate , Toronto Globe and Mail , GEO , the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, Frontline and other outlets.
She also worked for eight years as the Northern California correspondent for C-SPAN. She has won two Thomas Moore Storke International Journalism Awards and a Maggie for excellence in feature writing. She is also well known in national media diversity and media reform circles.
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