Richard Parks

About Me

Richard Parks has a degree from McGill University in Montreal and is currently a student in the documentary film program at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. He is the recipient (with fellow Bay Citizen intern Kate McLean) of the 2010 Randy Shilts Memorial Award for Exceptional Reporting and the 2010 Wired Award for Excellence in New Media Reporting on Technology. The former editor of two newspapers, Parks was also associate producer for a Emmy-nominated documentary film aired on PBS, The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez. His writing has appeared in McSweeney's, Salon, and many other print and online publications.