I'm a former editor for World Pulse, where I helped develop and launch PulseWire in 2007. Now, I'm a freelance multimedia reporter and producer in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I recently finished my studies at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. While there, I focused on photography, videography and online initiatives, learning to tell stories and reach communities in new ways as journalism struggles to find its place in a shifting media world.

A bit more about me – this summer, I completed a News21 fellowship with the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education, where I led a team of five to develop BARThood.org, on community and mass transit in Bay Area neighborhoods. I've produced multimedia for the Center for Investigative Reporting and The Chauncey Bailey Project, and taught social media workshops for the Knight Digital Media Center. My master's thesis “Foreclosed,” documenting items left behind in California foreclosures, received the 2009 Dorothea Lange Fellowship for photography. My work has appeared in several Bay Area publications, as well as AlterNet, China Digital Times and NBC.

I'm always looking for new projects and ideas, so if you have a story you think should be covered, or would like to collaborate, say hello, or find me on my website at http://rhyencoombs.com.