Myron Levin | Editor
Myron founded FairWarning after more than 20 years as a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, where he was a member of the California investigations desk. He has won numerous honors and awards for his detailed investigations of health and safety matters, including an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship and the National Press Club’s Consumer Journalism Award. He has reported on the tobacco industry, auto and tire safety, and a variety of product liability issues. He likes hiking and playing racquetball, and he owns a minuscule share of a professional minor league baseball team. Myron is a member of FairWarning’s board of directors.
Lilly Fowler | Assistant Editor
Lilly worked at the public radio show Marketplace before joining FairWarning. Her freelance work, much of it about religion, has appeared in The Washington Post, Slate and Salon, among other publications. She has a master’s in journalism from the University of Southern California and a master’s in religion from the University of Notre Dame. Lilly was born in Mexico and grew up in the border town of Nogales. Her guilty pleasures include comics and punk and psychedelic music.
Stuart Silverstein | Assistant Editor
Stuart Silverstein is a veteran reporter and editor who worked on the business, metro and national news staffs of the Los Angeles Times. He covered, among other beats, organized labor, economics and higher education. During his 32-year newspaper career, Stu also worked for dailies in Dallas, Atlanta and Buffalo. Stu has taught business journalism at USC. When he isn’t chasing stories, Stu enjoys seeing foreign films, studying foreign languages, working out and swimming. And he is interested in anything having to do with his hometown, Buffalo, N.Y.
Lea Yu | Researcher-Reporter
Lea studied at Yale University, covering immigration, labor and economic development issues for the Yale Daily News. She also edited The Beida Bulldog magazine and reported for Voice of San Diego. Besides print journalism, she enjoys designing infographics for the Right Question Project, creating documentary photography and reading up on 20th century history. She most recently compiled oral histories in New Orleans, where she ate many po-boys, beignets and crawfish.
Elise Craig | Researcher-Reporter
Elise Craig first fell in love with journalism while working as a reporter for The Octagon, her high school newspaper. Since then she has worked for NBC Nightly News, The Hill, The Washington Post and BusinessWeek. She is a graduate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Georgetown University, where she was a reporter for The Hoya. Her favorite things include the beach, the semi-colon and Hoya Basketball.
| Researcher-Reporter
Jill is soon to graduate from the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2007, she worked as a reporter in Central America for seven years, writing for publications such as The Miami Herald, Time.com, The Christian Science Monitor and San Francisco Chronicle, as well as Guatemalan news outlets Inforpress Centroamericana, elPeriodico and SigloXXI. If you can’t find her in front of the computer or at an interview, try the kitchen or off on a country road on her bike.
Matthew Richmond | Researcher-Reporter
Matthew is working toward a master’s in journalism at the University of Southern California. He has interned at KQED Public Radio’s Los Angeles Bureau, the Cape Times in Cape Town, South Africa, and the Los Angeles Business Journal. His interests include politics and history in Los Angeles, development in sub-Saharan Africa, criminal justice, trains, buses and bicycles. Before journalism school, Matthew was a volunteer with Peace Corps Cameroon where he worked with subsistence farmers in the mountains near the Nigerian border. He enjoys riding his bicycle around the city, hiking in the Mojave and trading stories.
Diana Hoff | Business Manager
Diana serves as vice president of Fluffco, LLC, and owner of GBS Dezign USA, a web development firm. Prior to Fluffco and GBS, she held several management positions at Renaissance Bankcard Services and Sears Credit. Diana also serves on various boards and advisory committees for local non-profit organizations in the Portland, Ore., metro area. She is also administrator of The Renaissance Foundation.
