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Eliot Faine

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Oakland
As seen in: Bay Area Reporter
Covers:  General assignment, civics, education, public health and safety, LGBT+
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Eliot Faine’s Biography

Eliot Faine is an early-career journalist in Oakland. Faine's coverage includes higher education, civics, and public health and safety across the Bay Area. Faine believes in empowering communities to self-determine by providing ethically sourced information.

His reporting has earned recognition from the Journalism Association of Community Colleges, the Community College Public Relations Organization, and the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Faine earned two certificates of achievement from Laney College's Journalism program in the fall semester of 2025, and spent the spring semester of 2026 as a co-Editor in Chief of The Citizen, the only student-run news publication in the Peralta Community College District.

Faine is a freelance reporter (with dreams of being staff), a contributing writer to the Bay Area Reporter, and a student intern with EdSource.