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| '''Roland De Wolk''' is an American journalist. | |||
| '''Roland De Wolk''' is an American journalist and former television news producer who was fired by Bay Area television station KTVU after it broadcast false and racially insensitive names of pilots involved in the July 2013 Asiana airplane crash at San Francisco International Airport. De Wolk, who worked at the station from 1991 until his termination, had also been involved in a controversy involving Electronic Frontier Foundation technologist Micah Lee, whom he interviewed and included in a story about the free speech implications of ], a subject Lee contended was not brought up in the interview. <ref>SF Weekly, Jul. 25 2013 [http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2013/07/ktvu_roland_de_wolk_asiana.php | |||
| ] ''Ousted KTVU Producer Allegedly Had History of Questionable Reporting Before Asiana Gaffe'' by Rachel Swan.</ref> | |||
| De Wolk spent the first half of his three-decade plus career at publications such as the ] and ] . He was also wrote for publications such as the ] , ] as well as the ] (now defunct). | De Wolk spent the first half of his three-decade plus career at publications such as the ] and ] . He was also wrote for publications such as the ] , ] as well as the ] (now defunct). | ||
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Roland De Wolk is an American journalist.
De Wolk spent the first half of his three-decade plus career at publications such as the Oakland Tribune and San Francisco Chronicle . He was also wrote for publications such as the New York Times , Chicago Tribune as well as the Paris Metro (now defunct).
In 1993 he accepted an adjunct professorship of journalism at San Francisco State University’s Journalism Department where he teaches courses including the History of Journalism and Online Journalism, as well as newswriting, reporting, feature reporting and investigative reporting.
Textbook
With Professor Emeritus Leonard Sellers at San Francisco State University, De Wolk founded the Online Journalism Program that started NewsPort.org. He is the author of the an Online Journalism university textbook, "Introduction to Online Journalism: Publishing News and Information." (Pearson, 2000).
Awards
Roland De Wolk won a Society of Professional Journalists Career Achievement Award, four James Madison Freedom of Information Awards from SPJ, a Casey Award, and the Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Journalism.
Personal
De Wolk is a graduate of UC Berkeley, lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, San Francisco Chronicle political reporter Carla Marinucci.