Category: Newspaper Profiles

San Quentin News Serves Captive Audience

We added an unusual addition to our California newspaper listings this morning - the San Quentin News.  Produced by the inmates of San Quentin State Prison, this behind bars tabloid seeks to inform and entertain the prison's 5,214 potential readership while giving the paper's journalistic staff the chance to acquire some useful skills under the mentorship of Stanford University Professor Tobias Wolff.  The newspaper was the subject of an interesting piece in Saturday's San Fransico Chronicle.


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5 comments | Posted by Ian Duckworth on 03/28/2009 at 4:06 PM | Categories: Newspaper Profiles -