Paul Grabowicz, associate dean of journalism

Paul Grabowicz is associate dean and a senior lecturer at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he directs the New Media Program and teaches classes in multimedia reporting and new media publishing. He also helps direct the school’s Knight Digital Media Center Multimedia & Technology Training Program for mid-career journalists.

Before coming to UC Berkeley, he was a professional journalist for more than 20 years and spent most of that time as an investigative reporter at the Oakland Tribune. Grabowicz also served as the night city editor and acting city editor at the Tribune, and helped develop an early prototype of a Web site for the paper.

Grabowicz has written for numerous publications, including the Washington Post, Esquire, The Village Voice, the Online Journalism Review and Nieman Reports. He is co-author of "California Inc.," a book about how the entrepreneurial spirit shaped the politics, culture and economy of California.