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John Burks
About John Burks
John Burks, Contributing Writer, City Central Extra, San Francisco. Burks’ career has spanned magazines, newspapers, books and websites, taking him from newsrooms to academia and back. He served as a Newsweek correspondent, Rolling Stone’s first managing editor, and investigative reporter for the San Francisco Examiner and Oakland Tribune, established San Francisco Focus (now San Francisco Magazine) as the Bay Area’s dominant magazine. Now an emeritus professor at San Francisco State University, Burks he created both SFSU’s magazine sequence and its online news site—the first in the nation. As chair of the Department of Journalism there, he led a state and national effort to upgrade journalism curriculum. The long-time president of the San Francisco Study Center, he has helped nurture Central City Extra, which the nonprofit publishes, as it has taken top Northern California journalism awards.