Who, What, Where: July '06

Find out what's happening in the world of San Diego media.

Radio
Ana Tintocalis has joined the KPBS-FM news team as an education reporter.  Ana previously worked as a producer on the KPBS-FM talk show "These Days."

TV
Amita Sharma moved from KPBS-FM to KPBS-TV, joining the nightly news program "Full Focus" as a reporter.

Print
Rick Bell, former managing editor at the San Diego Business Journal, left in May to work for Workforce Management in Orange County.

Thomas York from San Francisco was hired as the Business Journal's new editor in chief.

At the San Diego Union-Tribune, features design editor Michael James Rocha was elected to the Asian American Journalists Association governing board. He also will oversee the Los Angeles, San Diego and Texas chapters and he leads the group's marketing and communications committee. He is the local AAJA chapter's treasurer and was co-chair of the 2003 AAJA National Convention in San Diego.

U-T staff writer Leslie Berestein was invited to speak at an all-day workshop on immigration issues at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists convention in Fort Lauderdale in June.

Kristina Davis joined the U-T as the crime and public safety reporter in North County. Kristina was previously a crime reporter with the East Valley Tribune in Mesa, Ariz.

Daniel Wiegand, a new U-T news artist, previously spent six years at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver.

Paul Wallen joined the U-T staff as a sports designer. He was previously the assistant managing editor for visuals at the Sun-Journal in Lewiston, Maine.

Keith Darce, who was a reporter at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans for nine years, joined the U-T staff in April to cover the business of health care. In New Orleans, he covered power utilities, ship manufacturing and telecommunication. After Hurricane Katrina, he moved to the city desk and took a lead role in covering storm-recovery issues.

U-T staff writer Brooke Williams and research analyst Danielle Cervantes wrote an article for "The IRE Journal" explaining how they got the story "Land of Confusion," about the city's flawed inventory of properties.

U-T photographer Dan Trevan and his wife, Donna, welcomed their son Zachary Robert to the world on March 15. Zach weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces, and was 21.5 inches long.

Local government editor Laura Wingard married her longtime beau, Michael Schuerman, on Feb. 23. Michael is the research director for the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp. Laura and Michael met six years ago when they worked at The Press-Enterprise in Riverside.

Henry Fuentes has returned to San Diego as the new letters editor/copy editor in the U-T's editorial/opinion department. He has been a copy editor at The Los Angeles Times for 16 years, was a reporter for the former The San Diego Union.

Linda Lou has joined the U-T staff to cover San Marcos and its schools. She previously worked at The Press-Enterprise in Riverside as an education reporter.

Warisa Chulindra has joined the U-T news copy desk as a copy editor. Warisa comes from The Tennessean in Nashville.

Meredith Wade has started work as a part-time community news reporter in Carlsbad while completing her master's degree in mass media at San Diego State University.

Recent departures at the U-T include: features designer Michelle Carlin, news designer Amie DeFrain, graphic journalist Paul Horn, Vista reporter Adam Klawonn, and Martin Stolz, who covered downtown San Diego. Copy editor John Owen retired after nearly 30 years, while North Coast editor Ron Ham retired after 31 years as a journalist, 21 of them at the U-T.