SPJ 2015 Western Regional Conference

Audrey Cooper is editor in chief of The San Francisco Chronicle, and is the first woman to hold the position in the newspaper’s 150-year history. She has worked as a journalist at the Tri-Valley Herald, the Associated Press, and the Stockton Record, all in the San Francisco Bay area. She joined the Chronicle in 2006 as an assistant metro editor, rising to replace Stephen Proctor as managing editor in May 2013... Read More →

Holly Kernan is the executive editor of news at KQED. She was formerly news director at KALW 91.7FM in San Francisco, where she was the architect of the award-winning Public Interest Reporting Project. In 2009 she was named Journalist of the Year by the Northern California Chapter... Read More →