Research Bio

Formerly the CEO and Executive Director of the American Press Institute (API), Bolden has had a distinguished career that has taken him from the New Orleans Times-Picayune to the Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle, the John S. Knight Fellowship program at Stanford University and API. He has worked as a local reporter and national editor, a teacher and nonprofit leader.

He is the Dean and Professor of the School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is preparing the next generation of journalists to meet the evolving information needs of a complex, diverse society.

Research Expertise and Interest

community-engaged journalism