CHRIS JENNEWEIN EDITOR & GENERAL MANAGER Chris Jennewein has more than 35 years experience in online media. Prior to starting Times of San Diego, he was associate editorial director for

Patch.com in Southern California and president of San Diego News Network. From 2001 to 2008 Jennewein led The San Diego Union-Tribune’s SignOnSanDiego.com, one of the most popular and

profitable newspaper websites. Previously he was vice president of operations for Knight Ridder Digital in San Jose. Under Jennewein’s leadership, Knight Ridder introduced the nation’s first

complete online newspaper at the San Jose Mercury News in 1993. Jennewein is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economics. He also serves as editorial

newspapers throughout San Diego. Main is proud to be among the few independent female publishers in San Diego. ------------------------- EDITING STAFF BROOKE BINKOWSKI MORNING NEWS EDITOR

Brooke Binkowski is an award-winning journalist whose career has taken her all over the world and back to San Diego again. She has worked as a multimedia journalist covering the U.S.-Mexico

border for NPR, a breaking news reporter for KPCC and KNX in Los Angeles, and since 2015 she has worked as a counter-disinformation journalist, spending the last several years running

debunking sites TruthOrFiction.com and Snopes.com. She is also a third-generation San Diego journalist who grew up in the newsroom of the _Lemon Grove Review_, where her grandfather was the

publisher. ------------------------- JENNIFER VIGIL AFTERNOON NEWS EDITOR Jennifer Vigil is an award-winning journalist whose content has been featured in print, web and broadcast venues

including the San Diego Union-Tribune, Patch, the Chicago Tribune and the Huffington Post. She is experienced in traditional and advanced news gathering methods, including reporting, still

photography and video, and driving traffic to web sites using SEO and social media. She has provided on-air commentary for national and local media outlets, including Fox News and PBS.

ELIZABETH IRELAND CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Elizabeth Ireland is a journalist, content creator, and communications specialist with nearly 20 years of experience on both coasts. Her writing has

appeared in outlets such as Fast Company, NBC News, Forbes, and The San Diego Union-Tribune. She loves to volunteer in her free time and take her rescue dog to the beach.

------------------------- THOMAS MELVILLE CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Thomas Melville has been the editor of La Jolla Village News, Beach & Bay Press and Peninsula Beacon newspapers since 2015.

Melville, a New York native, is an award-winning journalist who has worked for national and regional magazines, daily and weekly newspapers, and websites for nearly 30 years from New York to

North Carolina to Maryland, and now California. He has covered everything from professional sports teams to hurricanes to the Día de los Muertos parade in Mexico City. He helped create and

became a minority owner and editor of a successful weekly newspaper in Ocean City, Maryland. In 2012, he moved to California and edited a digital magazine before reuniting with his first

love, newspapers. ------------------------- HOA QUACH CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Hoa Quach is an award-winning journalist with more than a dozen years of experience in online, radio and TV

journalism. She has worked at San Diego News Network, Patch, 10News and KPBS. In her spare time, she teaches yoga and volunteers with Words Alive. A native of San Diego, she graduated from

San Diego State University with a degree in journalism. ------------------------- DEBBIE L. SKLAR CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Debbie L. Sklar is a seasoned journalist who has lived and worked in

Southern California for more than 20 years. Her content has been featured in print in such publications as the Orange County Register, OC Metro, Newsweek and Time. She has covered news beats

ranging from police and celebrities to home and garden topics. She was a field editor for AOL/Patch.com/Huffington Post for several years and wrote many stories that went viral nationally.

------------------------- KEN STONE CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Ken Stone has long experience in local news media, beginning in 1977 as editor of the weekly San Marcos Courier. Later he worked at

the San Diego Daily Transcript, San Diego Business Journal and 24 years at The San Diego Union-Tribune, where he was a news and sports copy editor and part of a SignOnSanDiego.com team that

won national honors for coverage of the 2003 San Diego County wildfires. He launched the AOL-owned La Mesa Patch in 2010 and eventually became associate regional editor of the hyperlocal

news network in San Diego. His hobby website, masterstrack.com, won the inaugural award for online journalism excellence from Track and Field Writers of America. Ken is a Phi Beta Kappa

graduate of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas. ------------------------- DAVE THOMAS CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Dave Thomas is the

editor of Mission Times Courier, College Times Courier and La Mesa Courier. A Pennsylvania native, his first full-time reporter job was in 1989. When not working, he enjoys watching Alabama

Crimson Tide football in the fall, going to the beach, collecting sports memorabilia and following true crime stories. ------------------------- REPORTING AND VISUALS STAFF JW AUGUST

CONTRIBUTING REPORTER JW August began his decades-long journalism career working as a stringer for the AP and UPI wire services, which led to a San Diego news service reporting job covering

courts and local government. His stories were published in community papers like the Vista Press and Escondido Times Advocate. He later landed a job at 10news as a weekend assignment editor

and 25-plus years later became the newsroom’s managing editor, focusing on investigative reporting. After retiring, he re-entered the job market at NBC7 San Diego where he was an

investigative producer for five years. August then became a freelancer, enjoying the freedom and flexibility the Times of San Diego and other news organizations offer him in covering a range

of stories. ------------------------- MEGAN BIANCO CONTRIBUTING FILM CRITIC Megan Bianco is a Southern California-based columnist and freelance writer with up to a dozen years of

professional writing experience. She has a degree from CalState University Northridge, where she majored in screenwriting and film criticism. Other publications and websites she has written

for include The San Clemente Times, The Durango Herald, DGO Magazine, Smoke Signals News and She’s a Full on Monet. You can also find Megan on Instagram as @moviemuses and on Substack with

The Meggie Sue. ------------------------- RICK GRIFFIN MARKETING COLUMNIST Rick Griffin has more than 30 years of experience in journalism, marketing communications, advertising, public

relations, media relations, government affairs, investor relations and nonprofit marketing. He has worked as a newspaper reporter, radio broadcaster, TV news writer and magazine editor.

Griffin is the recipient of lifetime achievement awards from the San Diego Press Club and the American Advertising Federation. For several decades, he has operated his own San Diego-based

advertising and PR consultancy. ------------------------- LUIS MONTEAGUDO JR. CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Luis Monteagudo Jr. is an award-winning journalist and communicator with more than 30

years of experience. He has worked for The San Diego Union-Tribune and USA Today and appeared on television, including KUSI and KPBS. Luis is bilingual and has also been featured in local

Spanish-language media. In addition to his work in journalism, he has served as deputy chief of staff and director of communications for former County Supervisor Greg Cox and as vice

president of community relations for 211 San Diego. Monteagudo writes about pop culture, entertainment and sports for the Times of San Diego. ------------------------- DAVE SCHWAB

CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Dave Schwab is a Michigan State University journalism grad who started his career writing editorials for the daily newspaper, The State News. He moved to San Diego in

1982 and has worked as a general assignment reporter for several publications over the years, including the San Diego Business Journal, the La Jolla Light, The Daily Californian and San

Diego Community Newspaper Group. His outside interests include sports, reading, hiking and spending time with friends. ------------------------- DREW SITTON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Drew Sitton

 started with San Diego Community Newspaper Group in 2019 during the acquisition of San Diego Community Newspaper Network. The lifelong San Diego resident was hired as editor of Uptown News.

Now, they are a full-time reporter, covering the city’s core to East County. Sitton majored in mass communications and has work experience in national news organizations in addition to

extensive local coverage. ------------------------- CHRIS STONE CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER Chris Stone has been a photojournalist off and on for close to 30 years, most recently with Patch.

Her work has been exhibited at the San Diego County Fair for decades, including first place for Sports and black and white photos. She has won dozens of first-places awards in recent San

Diego Press Club competitions, and top honors in the San Diego chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Chris also worked as an editor or reporter for the Tucson Citizen, The

Vista Press, Chula Vista Star-News and Oceanside Blade-Tribune before becoming an ESL teacher in the San Diego Community College District. Her images have appeared in The Washington Post,

The San Diego Union-Tribune, Fast Forward of USA Track & Field, National Masters News and a National Geographic book. A graduate of the University of Arizona, where she won top student

reporter honors, she majored in journalism and minored in political science. -------------------------