Freelance writer, San Francisco, CA
August 2007-present
Independent journalist specializing in technology reporting and feature writing.
Author of “Giants Past and Present,” a book about baseball’s New York and San Francisco Giants, coming in Spring 2010 from MVP Books.
For my most recent work, please see My Writing.
Recent publications:
Los Angeles Times
Stories include:
Facebook becoming big friend of small business
Microsoft hoping that Hollywood touch makes Windows 7 a hit
Ukuleles have gone viral
IPhone app firm SonicMule puts music at its users fingertips
The New York Times
Stories include:
They’re working on their own, just side by side
Personal assistants on call, just not in the next office
Killer statue — Psyched about the site!
USA Today
Fortune.com
Stories include:
Welcome to Conference 2.0: Social media is putting an end to the passive role attendees traditionally play at business gatherings
San Francisco magazine
Stories include:
The Lords of No Rings: After 50 years in San Francisco without a single World Series title, the Giants have now passed all the pretenders. Stay in denial if you wish, but this is America’s most heartbroken baseball team.
Practice: New Writing and Art
Vanuatu: An Essay. Story about a brother and sister’s journey to learn about their father’s World War II experience in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, complete with a trip to the top of an active volcano.
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco,
Staff writer for daily newspaper, circulation 400,000.
- Write breaking news and feature stories for business section, specializing in technology.
- Wrote weekly media column, 1999-2003.
-
Won Peninsula Press Club award for feature about Lucasfilm spinoffs. - Faced contempt of court charges in January 2000 for refusing to testify about unpublished information in Marin County Superior Court, stemming from a 1997 murder story. Charge overturned by California Court of Appeals.
Stories are online in chronological order.
- Won Davidoff Scholarship to Wesleyan Writers Conference, one of two national winners, 1997.
- Won California Newspaper Publishers and “Best of Gannett” awards for 1996 stories on education and agriculture.
- Won numerous Gannett awards for reporting on technology, education and health.
- Won state American Heart Association awards for stories on teen heart transplant patient, 1992-93.
Contributing editor for monthly magazine covering population and consumer trends.
Freelance Reporter
- Regular contributor to the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post and the Oakland Tribune.
- Published in:
Columbia Journalism Review, Seattle Times, Detroit Free Press, Cleveland Plain Dealer.
- Won AP awards for series on police brutality complaints and for deadline reporting on bus crash.
- Won New York Newspaper Publishers Association award for distinguished community service.
- Won Gannett award for investigation into developers’ interests in a proposed highway.
USA Today
Arlington,
Reporter on loan to rewrite desk, news department.
- Part of floor team at Democratic National Convention.
Tab Newspapers
Senior reporter for largest weeklies in Massachusetts.
EDUCATION
College of Communication
Sept. 1980-May 1984
B.S. in Journalism, concentration in Political Science. Magna Cum Laude.
- Internship with U.S. Rep. Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Sports editor for The Daily Free Press.
CONTACT
DAN FOST
Danfost@gmail.com
References available upon request.
