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The board of directors of the Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Co., Inc., oversees the business affairs of the Daily Cal. The board has no control over editorial content or personnel. The editor in chief and staff representative automatically have seats on the board.

	John Oppedahl '67 Chairman While earning a degree in political science at UC Berkeley, John was editor of the Daily Cal. He went on to receive a master's in journalism at Columbia University. He began his journalism career at the San Francisco Examiner, and has also worked at the Detroit Free Press, the Dallas Times Herald, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and the Arizona Republic in various capacities. Most recently, he was the publisher and CEO of the Hearst-owned San Francisco Chronicle. John lives in San Francisco, and has a son, Max, who lives in Phoenix.
	David Corvo '72 Board Member After serving as editor of the Daily Cal, David began his broadcast journalism career in 1975 at a CBS affiliate in Los Angeles. He went on to a long career as an executive at CBS News, where he served in various capacities, including overseeing the network's prime-time newsmagazine programs. After almost three years with Fox News Productions, he joined NBC News as vice president in 1995. In June 2001, he was appointed Executive Producer of the primetime newsmagazine Dateline NBC. He and his wife, writer Michele Willens, have two children and live in New York.
	Tom Goldstein Board member
	Paul Grabowicz Board member Paul Grabowicz is Adjunct Professor, Assistant Dean and Director of the New Media Program at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism. He also is a staff columnist at the Online Journalism Review, writing about the Internet and its uses as a reporting tool, and a contributor to E-Media Tidbits, a Weblog on online publishing issues. He is co-author of "California Inc.," a book about how the entrepreneurial spirit shaped the politics, culture and economy of California. A journalist for 27 years, he spent most of his career as the investigative reporter at The Oakland Tribune. There he also served as night city editor and acting city editor and developed an early prototype of a Web site for the paper. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley with a B.A. in sociology, he began his journalism career in 1973 working for local papers in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the Bay Guardian. He has written for publications such as the Washington Post, Esquire magazine, The Village Voice and Newsday and is the recipient of numerous journalism awards, including honors from the California Newspaper Publishers Association, the Inland Daily Press Association, and First Amendment Funding. In 1995 he launched J-JOBS, a journalism jobs digest distributed on the Internet. He later set up and now operates a journalism job bank, the CAL-FOI First Amendment archive, and an Internet resources guide, all on the Web site of the Graduate School of Journalism. He also runs an e-mail discussion list on public access and freedom-of-the-press issues.
	Tim Graham Vice Chair Tim is editor in chief of TechWeek, a weekly magazine for technology professionals in Silicon Valley. He previously was editor of the Oakland Tribune. A native of Ohio, he is a graduate of DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind. Before joining the Tribune in 1992, he worked for the Houston Post, the Dallas Times Herald and the Dayton Daily News. He is president of the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
	Patrick Hoge Board member
	Bruce Koon '71 Board member Bruce was editor of the Daily Cal his senior year, and has worked at the San Francisco Examiner, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Oakland Tribune, the Wall Street Journal and the National Observer. Since 1995 Bruce has been managing editor of Mercury Center, the online publishing unit of the San Jose Mercury News. Bruce has also taught journalism at SFSU, and in 1996 served as president of the San Francisco Chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association.
	Katrina J. Lee Board member
	Henry K. Lee Board member
	Corinne Chen Staff Representative
	Helen Marcus '68 Board member Helen, who was business manager of the Daily Cal during her senior year, earned her MBA at Columbia University and now works as a commercial loan officer at Mechanics Bank in Berkeley. She also is director of the City of Berkeley Chamber of Commerce. She and her husband, David, live in Berkeley with their two boys.
	Nick Perlmuter Board member
	Joe Pichirallo '71 Board member After graduating from UC Berkeley with a degree in journalism and serving as editor of the Daily Cal, Joe began a reporting career that included stints at the San Francisco Examiner, the Miami Herald and the Washington Post, where he covered such stories as the Iran Contra Affair and the fall of Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega. He left journalism in 1992 for a career in film. After starting at HBO, he helped launch Fox Searchlight Pictures, where he is vice president of production. He has been chairman of the board of the Daily Cal's parent company since 1993. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Mary Rainwater.
	Diane Rames General Manager
	Nate Tabak Editor in Chief