Tamara Grippi

Dublin, CA USA
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Professional Experience

My writing has taken the broad view as well as the personal view of weighty issues, including homelessness, veterans returning from war, and low-income residents struggling to survive in the Bay Area. As a government reporter, I have followed the development and debate surrounding new laws including DUI restrictions and gun control. As a business reporter, I have covered commercial development, small business, retail, consumer trends and the tourism industry. I wrote an ongoing series on innovators, venture capitalists and architects. My environmental reporting experience on the Central Coast includes such issues as the Pine Tree pitch canker epidemic and the sudden oak death disease. I have written about regional hospitals and their medical advancements in cancer treatment and heart care. My lifestyle writing experience includes features written on renowned architects as well as trends in interior design and landscape architecture.

Expertise

Reporter
8 Years
Photographer
6 Years
Writer
8 Years

Specialty

Entrepreneurship
2 Years
Lifestyle
8 Years
Other, Specify
8 Years

Industries


Newspaper - Local/Regional
2 Years
Marketing (firm) - Small to mid-sized corp. cl
1 Year
Newspaper - Community
6 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

9 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Carmel Pine Cone Newspaper (10+), Media News Inc. (10+), San Francisco Examiner (10+)

Computer Skills

word, Google docs, Picassa

Equipment

laptop, digital camera, audio recorder

References

Upon request

Awards

First place for California Newspaper Publishers Association environmental reporting

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