JUDY FARAH

From covering presidents, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Olympics to the Academy Awards and serial killers, I've seen and written about it all from New York, Los Angeles and Sacramento. I'm a former reporter/editor for The Associated Press, newspaper reporter and Huffington Post blogger who worked in broadcast news for 20 years. I've won Edward R. Murrow and AP awards and trained more than 100 journalists. So many stories are out there. I'm here to tell them.

Who are the Kings and Queens of Sacramento News Social Media? The Answer May Surprise You. It Surpri

Social Media has drastically and dramatically changed the way we do news in the past decade. We are required to do so much these days....

Why Don't We Accept Apologies Anymore?

She called me unexpectedly one day. I was busy at work and was stunned when I answered the phone. We had not talked in 10-15 years....

How Sacramento Media Covered the Stephon Clark Protests

Photo by KFBK's Joe Michaels The March 18th shooting death of Stephon Clark by two Sacramento Police officers led to more than two weeks...

Did the March for Life Awaken a Sleeping Giant Familiar with Protests?

The California state Capitol was the site for one of the largest March for Life protests in the state on Saturday. High school students...

Beat Check. What's Going on with Sacramento Media.

Innovative Journalism He killed 12 people. Raped more than 50 women. His crime spree in the mid 1970s left the Sacramento area paralyzed...

Are Sacramento Republic FC fans worried about MLS bid? Some surprising answers on 5th season opening

Even though it was St. Patrick's Day, a night usually associated with parties and bar hopping, a sellout but shivering crowd filled Papa...

Passionate Speeches and Somber Moments. Students Walk Out of School to End Gun Violence.

The clock struck 10 and they began walking out. By the hundreds, by the thousands, by the tens of thousands across Sacramento, California...

How to Save Old Sacramento

Each night for more than 50 years, hundreds of people gather on a pier in Key West to watch the sunset together, sipping Rum Runners and...

Why I Am Marching With the Children on March 24th

It started as an ordinary January afternoon in the newsroom. I was working the broadcast desk for The Associated Press in Los Angeles,...

Female Editors? It's okay to be bossy. I am.

She was about to cover her first NBA playoffs and was nervous. My hometown team, the Sacramento Kings, were going up against the Los...

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