Michael Stoll is a journalist and educator who spent most of his career in newspapers. He is executive director of the San Francisco Public Press, a noncommercial local news website and quarterly print newspaper. The project was incubated at the Sulzberger program over the course of 2008 and it launched online in 2009. In 2010 the project, with financial support from the San Francisco Foundation and a mix of staff, freelance and volunteer journalists, won two reporting awards from the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and printed two editions of an ad-free broadsheet newspaper sold in bookstores, online and on the street for $2. Stoll teaches reporting classes at the University of San Francisco. Previously he taught at San Jose State University, where he was associate director of Grade the News, an independent media watchdog project. Before that, he was city editor, editorial page editor and investigative reporter at the San Francisco Examiner. His work has also appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Christian Science Monitor, the Hartford Courant, The San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Magazine and The New York Times. His freelance reporting now focuses on media ethics and environmental issues. He has served on the board of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Northern California chapter and was an organizer of the collaborative Chauncey Bailey Project in Oakland, Calif. He is a 1998 alumnus of Columbia Journalism School. He lives in San Francisco.