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Senior Lecturer Roland De Wolk has taught Reporting, Depth Reporting, Newswriting, Feature Writing, History of
Journalism and Introduction Online Journalism. He is the co-creator of the department's online journalism program, among
the very first in the nation.

Roland is the author of Introduction to Online Journalism, published by Allyn & Bacon, noted for being the first such
university textbook in the field.

Roland is Reporter-Producer of KTVU Special Reports for KTVU Channel 2 News in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he
concentrates on investigative reporting.

His work has been published, posted and broadcast across the nation and the world, from the New York Times to Fox to
Feed. He is also the author of two outdoors books, published by Chronicle Books of San Francisco.

Roland was an award-winning newspaper reporter for 15 years before going electronic and multimedia. He is a two-time
winner of the Society of Professional Journalists's James Madison First Amendment Award for Working Journalists (once
print, once broadcast); the Associated Press's managing Editor's Freedom of Information Award; and the Casey Journalism
Center For Children, among many other honors in print, broadcast and online news.

He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, is a graduate of UC Berkeley and has travelled extensively throughout Africa,
Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, South America and Australia.

Roland De Wolk is married and has two sons.