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Sandy
Close (President of New California Media)
SANDY CLOSE, executive director of the Bay Area institute/ Pacific
News Service, received a BA from the University of California-Berkeley
in 1964,then moved to Hong Kong where she worked as the China editor
for the Far Eastern Economic Review. Upon her return to the U.S.,
she founded The Flatlands newspaper, a raw voice of the inner city
communities of Oakland, Ca. In 1974, she became executive director
of the Bay Area Institute/Pacific News Service, helping to develop
it into one of the most diverse sources of literary voices and analytical
ideas in the U.S. news media. In 1991 she founded YOI (Youth Outlook),
a collaboration of writers and young people, and in 1996 she co-founded
"The BeatWithin,"a weekly newsletter of writing and art by incarcerated
youth. In 1996 she also found- ed New California Media, a network
of over 150 ethnic news organizations collaborating to produce a weekly
TV show, an awards program, and an inter-ethnic media exchange and
Web site.
In 1995, Close received a MacArthur Foundation "genius award" for
her work in communications. In 1997 a film she co-produced Ñ "Breathing
Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brian" Ñ won the Academy Award
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