About the author

Rachele Kanigel is an assistant professor of journalism at San Francisco State University, where she advises Golden Gate [X]press publications. Her students produce a weekly newspaper, a multimedia Web site updated throughout the week and a magazine that comes out three times a semester. In addition to advising publications, she teaches Newswriting, Reporting, Feature Writing, Magazine Writing, the Contemporary Magazine and Magazine Editing.

Professor Kanigel was a newspaper reporter for 15 years for daily newspapers, including The Oakland Tribune and The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina and was a freelance correspondent for TIME magazine. She has also written for U.S. News & World Report, Health, Organic Style, Natural Health, Yoga Journal, Reader's Digest and other magazines.

She is chair of the Professional Development Committee for College Media Advisers and is Vice President of the California College Media Association. In 2006 she was named Journalism Educator of the Year, Four-Year Division, by the California Journalism Education Coalition.

She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from San Francisco State University and a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.