California Watch releases “Reinventing Journalism,” Executive Director Robert J. Rosenthal’s account of joining the Center for Investigative Reporting and launching California Watch.
Christa Scharfenberg
Christa Scharfenberg is a former CEO of The Center for Investigative Reporting. She joined CIR in 2003 as communications manager and has been a leader in its growth from a small nonprofit news organization, producing a handful of stories a year, to a multiplatform newsroom that reaches millions of people monthly through public radio, podcasts, documentaries, social media and the web. She managed the launch and growth of Reveal, CIR's Peabody Award and duPont-Columbia University Award-winning national public radio show and podcast, produced with PRX. She has been an executive or senior producer of documentaries for CIR, including the Academy Award-nominated film “Heroin(e),” numerous FRONTLINE co-productions and the independent film “Banished,” which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Scharfenberg is a member of the Poynter Institute's National Advisory Board and was a 2014 Punch Sulzberger Program fellow at Columbia University Journalism School. Prior to joining CIR, she was associate director of the Film Arts Foundation in San Francisco.
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“Banished” screening and conversation with Marco Williams
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The Most Dangerous Man in America
CIR co-presents Ellsberg documentary screenings at the Mill Valley Film Festival
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Crude, the doc, opening in the Bay Area
Join Robert Rosenthal and Phil Bronstein for panel discussion Sept. 26.
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CIR co-presents two docs at SF International Film Festival
“A Day Late in Oakland” and “Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country” screen 4/23–5/7.
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Banished screening a hit
More than 400 showed up for the Oakland Museum event. Screens tonight in SF.