RYAN TATE
	Berkeley, CA 
	(415) 640-6119
	ryantate@ryantate.com

EXPERIENCE:
	Reporter, San Francisco Business Times newspaper
	October 2002-present
		* Beat reporter covering hospitality, East Bay real
                  estate
		* Weekly publication with active Web site
		* All weekly stories are exclusives
		* Best Bay Area Business Reporter, 2006, San Francisco
                  Bay Area Publicity Club
		  
	Reporter, Contra Costa Times newspaper
	July 2002-October 2002
		* Business reporter for 184,000-circulation Knight
                  Ridder daily newspaper in east San Francisco Bay
                  Area
		* Daily deadline reporting on range of topics,
                  including health care and technology

	Reporter, Business 2.0 magazine
	September 2001-May 2002
		* In-depth business reporting for 580,000-circulation
                  Time Inc. monthly magazine
		* Short stories on technology finance, exhaustive
                  research and fact checking

	Staff writer, UpsideToday Web site (part of Upside magazine)
	December 1999-September 2001
		* Real-time deadline reporting on digital media beat,
                  including in-depth coverage of Napster and Yahoo
		* Enterprise work produced scoops followed by
                  Economist, Wall Street Journal
		* Columnist and freelance reporter, December 1999 -
                  July 2000

	Freelance reporter and reporting intern, The Wall Street Journal
	December 1998 - December 1999
		* Unearthed and reported exclusive financial and
                  political stories throughout state
		* Wrote six freelance stories and another dozen
                  stories during internship
		* Weekly regional section inside Marketplace

	Editor in chief and president, The Daily Californian newspaper
	May 1997-May 1998 
		* Ran student newspaper at University of California,
                  Berkeley
		* Extensive awards from Society of Professional
                  Journalists, California Intercollegiate Press
                  Association

EDUCATION:
	B.A., political science, University of California, Berkeley