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I'm a free agent journalist. Most recently I was the executive producer for audio at the San Francisco Chronicle. I created and hosted the Not Your Century podcast, developed and produced the flagship daily news podcast Fifth & Mission, helped develop the food show Extra Spicy, and created and produced the Webby Award-winning documentary miniseries Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?. I'm a longtime writer, editor, broadcaster and teacher. I created, produced and hosted Can't Win 4 Losing, a podcast about losing, in 2017. I've been a key early employee at two great online startups. So far. At Bleacher Report, which I joined early in 2011, I helped the site transition from its wild-west "sign up and start writing" days to a professional sports media outlet by managing training and feedback efforts for B/R's hundreds of non-professional and early-career writers. These improvements in editorial quality played a major role in paving the way for Bleacher Report's reported $175 million acquisition by Turner Sports in 2012. After that professionalization, I was a senior editor on longform, deeply reported pieces by world-class writers. I am nothing if not adaptable. In 2014, I co-created and spent the next three years hosting "Content Is King," a daily interview show on SiriusXM Bleacher Report Radio. I liked to call it "Terry Gross for sports." You can hear some highlights here. I was recruited by Bleacher Report from Salon.com, where—careful not to give myself too much credit—I played a small part in inventing online media. My 14 years at Salon began in early 1997, just as it was switching from weekly publication, if you can believe that, to daily. I was the site's first copy chief and first copy editor. I was chief of myself, in other words, though I later got some underlings. Like all Salon editors at the time, I also wrote, and I became a full-time writer in 2001. The next year I launched King Kaufman's Sports Daily, a sports column that earned me, among other accolades, a fan letter from Berkeley Breathed, the cartoonist who created "Bloom County." That column also earned me the honor of talking sports on Fridays with radio legend Bob Edwards on his XM Radio show. That was a role that had been originated by Red Barber in Edwards' NPR days. I did my best. My career began in earnest in 1989 with a seven-year stint at the San Francisco Examiner, at the time owned by Hearst. It was the feisty afternoon paper in a two-newspaper town. Among many other duties as both a writer and editor, I covered the boxing beat, where I was once threatened with violence by the trainer of a lesser world champion, who was angry that I'd called his guy a lesser world champion. I didn't make that mistake again until the next day's paper. Along the way I've also written for the New York Times, among other places, and my writing has been anthologized in several books, including a rhetoric textbook, just in case you think you can beat me in an argument. A decade before I became an on-the-job journalism teacher at Bleacher Report, I served as the advisor for Student Life, the student newspaper at Washington University in St. Louis from 2002 to 2004. As WashU had no journalism program, the job involved a lot of basic journalism education, and Stud Life—as the kids called it—improved dramatically as a result. I earned a master's degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at UC-Berkeley, where I also earned a BA in history. In my college days I did play-by-play for baseball, men's and women's basketball and football for KALX Radio, where I was also a news reporter, anchor and producer before being named News Director. I covered Cal baseball for the Daily Californian newspaper, where I had tobacco juice spit on my shoes by potential Hall of Famer Jeff Kent, who was passive-aggressively but justifiably angry about the headline on a story of mine, though I hadn't written that head. My career has been all uphill from there. I had a whole life as a musician too. Details upon request.

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  Can’t Win 4 Losing: Why a podcast about losing? – King Kaufman – Medium

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