From Embarcadero Media’s new CEO: Coming home, with questions

One of my first assignments as an intern at the Palo Alto Weekly was to approach strangers on University Avenue and interview them for the paper’s “Streetwise” feature. I was terrified. My task was simple: Pose the same question to five people and return with coherent quotes. Fortunately, the editor sent a photographer along. Without that chaperone, I might still be standing on the sidewalk, working up my courage. Three decades later, I’m returning as CEO and publisher of the Embarcadero Media Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind the Weekly, The Almanac, the Mountain View Voice, the Redwood City Pulse and our three sister publications in the East Bay. I have considerably more experience now. But this week, I’m starting with much the same assignment: Get out into the community. Ask questions. Listen carefully. That internship helped set the course of my life.

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