Victor Merina is a Senior Fellow at the University of Southern California Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism and a former investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Times. He has led writing workshops from South Dakota to South Africa and organized a “Covering Race & Class” conference at Harvard with the Nieman Foundation. He is a newsroom trainer with the Committee of Concerned Journalists and a former fellow at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in Florida, the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center in New York, and the University of California at Berkeley. Merina also is the Projects Editor for reznetnews.org, a Web site covering Native American issues, and a Contributing Writer to LAObserved.com, a blog about media, politics and culture in Los Angeles. A regular participant in Columbia University’s annual “Let’s Do It Better” workshop on race, he has a B.A. in political science from UCLA and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.
