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Metro Editor
Robert Zizzo
rzizzo@fresnobee.com
(559) 441-6491
Robert Zizzo joined The Bee in October 2001 as deputy sports editor and became sports editor in October 2002. He recently was promoted to Metro Editor in August 2008. He previously served as news editor for the Wisconsin State Journal. He also worked in sports and news at the Las Vegas Sun after spending six years as sports editor at the Sheboygan (Wis.) Press.
Assistant Metro Editor
Doug Beeman
dbeeman@fresnobee.com
(559) 441-6171
Doug Beeman is an assistant metro editor who joined The Bee in July 2006. He worked previously as a reporter and editor at The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, where he covered health, the environment, politics and other beats. He also worked for newspapers in Salinas, Visalia and Watsonville. In 1998-99, he was a Media Fellow in Health with the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-partisan health policy institute based in Menlo Park, Calif.
Assistant Metro Editor
Jeff Bils
jbils@fresnobee.com
(559) 441-6471
Jeff Bils joined The Bee in February 2007. He worked previously at the Chicago Tribune as a reporter and editor. He also has worked as a reporter at newspapers in Illinois and Wisconsin, and he has participated in journalism fellowship programs in Germany.
Assistant Metro Editor
Nancy Price
nprice@fresnobee.com
(559) 441-6318
Nancy Price is an assistant metro editor who joined the Bee in May 2005. She worked previously as regional editor, assistant city editor and reporter at The Record in Stockton and also reported for newspapers in Lawrence, Kan., Anchorage, Alaska, Jacksonville, Fla., Daytona Beach, Fla. and the Chicago suburbs.
Reporter
Barbara Anderson
banderson@fresnobee.com
(559) 441-6310
Barbara Anderson has worked at The Bee since 1999. She reports on health and social services. She worked at the Reno Gazette-Journal from 1985-99.
Reporter
Marc Benjamin
mbenjamin@fresnobee.com
59) 441-6166
Marc Benjamin has worked for The Bee since 1999. He covers the Clovis City Hall and Clovis Unified School District. Previously, he spent eight years at The Bakersfield Californian covering outlying communities, police, city government and business. He also worked for newspapers in Redding, Porterville, Delano, Visalia and Prescott, Ariz.
Reporter
Russell Clemings
rclemings@fresnobee.com
(559) 441-6371
Russell Clemings has been at The Bee since 1984 covering city of Fresno. He also covers metropolitan growth/planning and is The Bee's chief computer-assisted reporter.
Reporter
Bethany Clough
bclough@fresnobee.com
(559) 441-6431
Bethany Clough is a business reporter who covers retail and general assignment. Bethany previously worked in The Bee's South Valley bureau starting in May 2002, covering Tulare County. She has worked as a reporter covering the community of Seneca Falls in upstate New York for the Finger Lakes Times and as Habitat for Humanity Fresno's communications coordinator. Before coming to The Bee, she was an education reporter for Neighbors weekly newspaper.
Reporter
Tracy Correa
tcorrea@fresnobee.com
(559) 441-6378
Tracy Correa has been a reporter at The Bee since 1996 and covers education for Fresno Unified and Central Unified school districts. Previously, she was a reporter at The (Fresno) Business Journal, The Riverside Press-Enterprise and The Hanford Sentinel.
Reporter
John Ellis
jellis@fresnobee.com
(559) 441-6320
John Ellis joined The Bee in 2000. He is The Bee's federal court reporter. Previously, he has worked at the Wichita (Kan.) Eagle, the Gary (Ind.) Post-Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Oroville (Calif.) Mercury-Register. He has covered city, county and state government, education and agriculture.
Reporter
Cyndee Fontana
cfontana@fresnobee.com
(559) 441-6312
Cyndee Fontana has worked at The Bee since 1988, starting in the South Valley Bureau in Visalia. Since moving to the Fresno office in 1991, she has covered such issues as juvenile crime, Fresno County government, higher education and courts. Her current assignment is higher education. She previously worked for the Oakland Tribune, Salinas Californian and Madera Tribune.
Reporter
Mark Grossi
mgrossi@fresnobee.com
(559) 441-6316
Mark Grossi joined The Bee in 1986. He covers environment, water and science issues. He previously worked as a reporter and columnist at the Providence (R.I) Journal-Bulletin and an editor and reporter at The Bakersfield Californian.
Reporter
Jim Guy
jguy@fresnobee.com
(559) 441-6339
Jim Guy works the morning shift covering crime news. He joined The Bee in 1975 and has worked on the copy desk and as an assistant editor on the metro desk.
Reporter
George Hostetter
ghostetter@fresnobee.com
(559) 441-6272
George Hostetter started at The Bee in 1987. At The Bee, he has been a business, enterprise and sports reporter. His current assignment is our Watchdog reporter. He has worked at the Lindsay Gazette, Porterville Recorder, Kingsburg Recorder, Hanford Sentinel and Marysville Appeal-Democrat.
Reporter
Paula Lloyd
plloyd@fresnobee.com
(559) 441-6756
Paula Lloyd covers general assignments and writes the Ask Me column. She has been at The Bee since December 2004. Previously, she covered Fresno neighborhoods and wrote feature stories for the City Life pages and was a reporter for Neighbors CityView and The Clovis Independent.
Reporter
Pablo Lopez
plopez@fresnobee.com
(559) 441-6434
Pablo Lopez covers courts. He has been with The Bee since 1987. He has covered courts, cops, rural communities, the cities of Fresno and Madera. He has worked for the Desert Sun in Palm Springs and had internships at The Modesto Bee and Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He is a Navy submarine veteran.
Columnist
Bill McEwen
bmcewen@fresnobee.com
(559) 441-6632
Bill McEwen is a metro columnist. He has been with The Bee since 1980, serving as city hall reporter, sports editor, sports columnist and enterprise reporter.
Interactive Media Content Producer
Jody Murray
jmurray@fresnobee.com
(559) 441-6367
Jody Murray joined the Interactive Media team in June 2007. He started his career with The Bee in June 1998, coming from the Monterey Herald, where he was an assistant city editor. Previously, he was an assistant city editor and assistant features editor at the Reno Gazette-Journal and a sports editor at The Daily Tidings in Ashland, Ore. He is a graduate of the University of Oregon in Eugene, Ore.
Reporter
Robert Rodriguez
brodriguez@fresnobee.com
(559) 441-6327
Robert Rodriguez is a business reporter covering agriculture. He has worked at The Bee since 1994. Previously, he was a reporter for the Albuquerque Journal for eight years.
Reporter
Tim Sheehan
tsheehan@fresnobee.com
(559) 622-2410
Tim Sheehan covers the city of Visalia. He has been at The Bee since January 2001, most recently serving as the South Valley bureau chief. Previously, he was editor of Fresno Neighbors, a zoned, weekly 85,000-circulation newspaper published by The Bee, for three years. From 1988 through 1990, he was a reporter covering local government and environmental issues for The Selma Enterprise and The Kingsburg Recorder. After a brief stint as a reporter covering environmental issues for The Hanford Sentinel in early 1991, he returned to serve as managing editor of The Enterprise and Recorder from mid-1991 to early 1998.
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