Bernice Yeung

An overdue update…
As of January, I’m contributing to the Small Business Monthly of the East Bay Express. Some recent stories:
Joel Makower Q&A: Use Your Checkbook and Your Trash Can
Arizmendi Q&A: Running a Business With 26 CEOs
Neighborhood Revitalization Through Retail
Shoplifting? Or Organized Retail Crime?
I’m also doing a little writing for Shareable.net, and my first [...]

Congratulations to the winners!
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SPJ ANNOUNCES 2009 EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM AWARD WINNERS
HOLLY KERNAN OF KALW PUBLIC RADIO GETS TOP AWARD
Since its inception 24 years ago, SPJ’s Excellence in Journalism Awards competition has always sought to recognize those whose work reflects the organization’s ideals of integrity, initiative and achievement.
— Excellence in Journalism Competition « Society of Professional [...]

Debate about whether the governor’s plan is tough or even smart on crime will continue, but it also doesn’t take a mathematician to see that for all of its potential strengths and weaknesses, the plan doesn’t meet the court mandate 40,000 fewer prisoners by 2011.
via newsdesk.org: Is Schwarzenegger’s Prison Plan Good Enough?.

Concerned that journalism’s economic problems are reducing Americans’ understanding of science, medicine and other research, 35 of the nation’s top universities — including Stanford and UC-Berkeley — on Tuesday announced they will feed their own accounts of their discoveries directly to top news sites on the Internet.
- via With science journalism in retreat, universities try [...]