BERKELEYSIDE

Berkeleyside is an independent local news website that offers breaking news and reporting on Berkeley's diversity of issues, people, food, and more. It covers the diversity of people, issues, events, food, and environment in its city, whose impact reaches far beyond the Bay Area. As a professional in the field of online local journalism, Berkeleyside benefits from its large community of engaged readers. Berkeleyside averages 160,000 unique visitors a month, and 565,000 pageviews. It was the... winner of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Northern California Excellence in Journalism Award for Community Journalism in both 2013 and 2014. Launched in 2009, Berkeleyside was founded by three veteran journalists, namely Lance Knobel, Tracey Taylor, and Frances Dinkelspiel. It is based in Berkeley, C.A.More