Roland De Wolk is a San Francisco Bay Area based reporter, news producer, author, and university journalism teacher. Like the 43 million other people with a Web page, he is also a public speaker. He’s pretty good, though.
Roland spent the first 15 years of his professional career as a print journalist, both for daily newspapers and magazines across the United States and Europe. He has spent the second 15 years greatly expanding to broadcast and online journalism. He is co-founder of one of the first original online journalism sites in the world and authored the first university textbook for online journalism.
De Wolk specializes in investigative projects, and has won most major citations in his field, most recently being honored by the Society of Professional Journalists with its Career Achievement Award.
He is a member of Investigative Reporters & Editors, the Committee for Concerned Journalists and has been a member of the New Media Executive Roundtable and was an Inaugural Fellow for the Freedom Forum’s New Media Technologies program. He was also a reporter and the managing editor for broadcast for the internationally noted Chauncey Bailey Project, while the partnership was active and broke major stories leading to charges against the alleged mastermind of the assassination, as well as the resignation of the Oakland police chief and Alameda County District Attorney.
Roland De Wolk is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and grew up in the Bay Area, where he still lives. He has traveled extensively throughout Africa, Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and North America as well as Australia.
He has been an unabashed Oakland Raiders fan since childhood and doesn’t care who knows it. Roland De Wolk has been happily married to the same woman for more than 25 years. They have two young adult sons.
You can reach Roland De Wolk through Roland@NewsPort.org
