Andrea G•••

About

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Andrea G••• is the editorial director at PUNCH, a monthly print magazine covering the San Francisco Peninsula and San Mateo County Coastside (online at punchmonthly.com). Previously, she was the editor of The Almanac and the Mountain View Voice, 2017's winner of Online General Excellence at CNPA's Better Newspapers Contest and winner of General Excellence in 2016 and 2018 at CNPA's renamed California Journalism Awards. As Mountain View's most trusted source for local news, the Voice published a weekly community newspaper until March 2020 when it transitioned to an online-only publication at mv-voice.com. In 2020, Andrea also became editor of The Almanac, a community newspaper covering Menlo Park and several surrounding Midpeninsula towns. As editor of both publications, she led a team of six journalist, made up of three reporters, two assistant editors and a visual journalist, produced daily email newsletters and managed social media accounts. Andrea is a Peninsula native who got her first newspaper job while still in high school and has devoted her career to community journalism. After graduating from the University of California at Santa Cruz with honors, she became a staff writer for the Almanac in Menlo Park, where she covered everything from homicides and city hall to land use, education and Brown Act violations. Her breaking news reporting on a second chance for reknown independent bookstore Kepler's following its abrupt closure earned her a first place award for Public Service Journalism from CNPA in 2006. Andrea joined the Mountain View Voice in 2010 as managing editor and was promoted to the new role of editor following the retirement of Editor-in-Chief Tom Gibboney in 2014. She also served as the Voice's online and social media editor. Under her leadership, the Voice won a number of honors, including General Excellence from CNPA in 2016 and 2018, General Excellence for mv-voice.com in 2017, and her newsroom staff has been recognized with numerous awards for reporting and photojournalism, including public service journalism and investigative reporting. She's guided four of her reporters through six fellowship projects at USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, editing multi-part deep-dives on topics like youth homelessness, the dire shortage of mental health professionals for children, and the impacts of chronic absenteeism among local students.