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Jonathan has been covering technology and politics for more than thirty years as a reporter, editor, newsroom leader and journalism entrepreneur.

After a stint in the technology trade press that included a posting in Paris, in 1990 he was named the first Silicon Valley correspondent for the Los Angeles. He subsequently served as co-founder and editor in chief of The Industry Standard, a weekly news magazine that became a symbol of the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. In 2005, as independent online media was beginning to take shape, he launched a local and regional online magazine called New West, serving the Rocky Mountain West. He then returned to San Francisco as the founding editor of The Bay Citizen, a non-profit news organization devote ...more

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City on the Edge: Technology, Politics, and the Fight for the Soul of San Francisco

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