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Bay area journalist works out bugs of the news

By Jessica Graham Bay area journalist Mark Follman unveiled his new project this week to a small class of SF State journalism students. The project, funded by the Knight News Foundation, uses a non-profit Web site called Media Bugs, where news readers can flag inaccurate or skewed stories they find in news media. Making mistakes public, Follman hopes to bridge the gap between journalists and their readers. “We all know journalists make mistakes, so why not work together to fix it and ma...
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Tea Party Takes a Slice Out of American Pie

Tea Party organizers have made a living on crossing the line between good-natured banter and insensitive sacrilege. They flaunt their Americanism while flogging the essence of the Constitution. They compare the president to Adolf Hitler. They blame poverty on laziness. Well, add another target to their list of verbal victims – the dead. Toward the end of the San Francisco Tea Party, which took place in all its glory at Union Square April 15, rally leader Sally Zelikovsky led the congregati...
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Silence is no longer golden

By Khaboshi Imbukwa When AIDS first made an appearance in Africa in the mid-80s, it was labeled the “white man’s disease” in reference to the way it was contracted, then that changed to “the slimming disease.” With that, came silence. Even though everyone says silence is golden, in this case it is the most painful thing to do to anyone who is suffering. That is what happened all over Africa when the plague hit and sadly, it is still happening. I have cousins and relatives who have died fro...
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Jaxon Van Derbeken: A true crime reporter

By Karina Suarez San Francisco Chronicle’s Crime Reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken is not much for words, but his stories speak for themselves. You will find Van Derbeken at the top of his game as he reports from the San Francisco Hall of Justice to bring the hard-hitting crime stories for the world to read. Van Derbeken showed his greatest reporting in 2008, when he reported a gang related killing that left three people dead and the community to question San Francisco’s policy of being a...
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100 Black Men: Saints among the living

First Person Story and photos by Khaboshi Imbukwa An e-mail a week before the event set the stage. “Girl, you have to come to Macy’s,” my friend Esther said. “Let’s go give to charity and get a $10 gift card!” My initial reaction was it was a Thursday, my long day of back-to-back classes. Besides, Survivor was on at 8 p.m. But Esther made it hard for me to say no. The 100 Black Men of the Bay Area came together not just to celebrate Black History Month, but also to raise funds for t...
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