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Brian Howey

(He/Him)
Oakland
As seen in: Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, WIRED Magazine, SFGate, NewsBreak, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, KTVU-TV (Oakland, CA), The San Francisco Examiner, CalMatters and
Covers:  Policing, extremism, homelessness.
He/Him | Local Investigations Fellow @nytimes & @MSTODAYnews | Formerly @UCBerkeleyIRP, @SentinelColo | Tips: brianwhowey *at* protonmail *dot* com

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Brian Howey’s Biography

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Brian Howey is an award-winning reporter based in Oakland, Calif. With five years of experience covering homelessness, policing and extremism, his work has appeared in the Washington Post, WIRED, the Los Angeles Times and various other national, regional and local publications. Howey currently works as a freelancer covering policing and science issues. He earned his master’s degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where he studied investigative reporting and narrative writing…

Brian Howey’s Journalist Portfolio

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43% of Emergency Hygiene Facilities for S.F. Homeless Lack Essentials - San Francisco Public Pres...

43% of Emergency Hygiene Facilities for S.F. Homeless Lack Essentials - San Francisco Public Pres...

More than four in every 10 emergency hygiene facilities the city has set up during the COVID-19 pandemic to s…

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City Kills Plan for Mass Coronavirus Testing in S.F. Homeless Shelters - San Francisco Public Pre...

City Kills Plan for Mass Coronavirus Testing in S.F. Homeless Shelters - San Francisco Public Pre...

San Francisco turned down a research startup's offer to test all of the city's homeless shelter residents for…

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Right-wing groups are recruiting students to target teachers | Reveal

Right-wing groups are recruiting students to target teachers | Reveal

When the threatening letters started to arrive, Albert Ponce stopped letting his daughter touch the mail. Pon…

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In the Bay Area, hope and anxiety | CalMatters

In the Bay Area, hope and anxiety | CalMatters

As President Trump and his supporters moved to stop the counting of mail-in votes in key battleground states …

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Behind the Tent Flap: Voices From the Streets of the Tenderloin - San Francisco Public Press

Behind the Tent Flap: Voices From the Streets of the Tenderloin - San Francisco Public Press

City workers have moved more than 140 homeless Tenderloin residents into hotel rooms and city-sanctioned tent…

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Housing Insecure Students Face an Uncertain Future

Housing Insecure Students Face an Uncertain Future

Rebecca Alturk would have graduated from UC Berkeley in May. As she crossed the stage to retrieve her diploma…

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Articles

May 20: Hope and prayers forge Sen. Young’s take on Iran war

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By Brian Howey
| Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly Verified
CARMEL — U.S. Sen. Todd Young attended the U.S. Naval Academy before accepting a commission in the Marine Corps, where he served as an intelligence officer. After discharge, he studied economics at the University of Chicago and later at the School of Advanced Study in London. The question I posed to the senior senator at Chabad Lubavitch of Indiana recently, about President Donald Trump’s war of choice against Iran, was: You were a Marine intelligence officer.
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Indiana Senate Republicans face Trump retribution

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By Brian Howey Verified, Brian Howey
| Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly Verified
INDIANAPOLIS — One of my most memorable conversations was in February 2006 when Greg Walker called me right before the candidate filing deadline. He was considering a primary challenge to powerful Senate President Pro Tem Robert Garton. My advice was to run as a community service to air out the issues. Incumbents should be challenged. You probably won’t win, I explained to Walker, but it would be a good exercise in civics.
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March 18: OPINION: Brian A. Howey: Indiana Senate Republicans face Trump retribution

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By Brian Howey
| Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly Verified
INDIANAPOLIS — One of my most memorable conversations was in February 2006 when Greg Walker called me right before the candidate filing deadline. He was considering a primary challenge to powerful Senate President Pro Tem Robert Garton. My advice was to run as a community service to air out the issues. Incumbents should be challenged. You probably won’t win, I explained to Walker, but it would be a good exercise in civics.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Beat reporter at the Laney Tower (now Peralta Citizen)

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Microsoft Word, Public Records, Excel, Tableau, Pro Tools, Photoshop and Lightroom, Zoom H4N and a good 'ole reporter's notepad.

When's the best time to pitch you?

When I'm not asleep.

Awards

Society of Professional Journalists Award

2020 - Ongoing Coverage in Print/Online, Small Division

For its 35th Annual Excellence in Journalism Awards, the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California chapter, recognized Public Press reporter Brian Howey with an Ongoing Coverage award for his reporting and critique of San Francisco’s systems supporting the homeless during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Best of the West

2020 - Audio Storytelling

Third Place, Audio Storytelling Category, for Force of Law, a podcast by StudioToBe and CalMatters about police shootings in California.

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