This archive is a reconstructed portfolio of reporting originally published in 2007–2008 while I was a student journalist at San Francisco State University. The articles appear here as they ran at the time—unaltered in language, structure, and attribution—alongside newly written follow-up analyses produced more than fifteen years later.
Many of the events covered in these pieces—student fee hikes, labor disputes, budget crises, political intervention, and questions of accountability—were framed in 2008 as temporary or exceptional. With the benefit of time, it is now possible to examine whether those assumptions held, what structural conditions persisted, and which outcomes were deferred rather than resolved.
This project treats the original reporting as a historical record, not a finished verdict. The follow-up analyses test the claims, rhetoric, and predictions made at the time against what actually happened in the years that followed.
Original Articles: Presented as primary-source documents. Headlines, bylines, dates, photographs, and captions are preserved to reflect how the stories were published and consumed in their original context.
Follow-Up Analysis: Each retrospective piece applies a consistent analytical framework—who acted, what occurred, where and when it unfolded, why decisions were made, and how outcomes materialized. Where applicable, long-term trajectories are traced into the 2010s and 2020s using public records, labor agreements, court filings, and contemporary reporting.
Sourcing: Claims in follow-up articles are supported with citations to government documents, institutional records, and major news coverage. Sources are intentionally limited to verifiable public materials.
This archive does not attempt to be comprehensive. It focuses on a specific period, a specific institution, and a specific body of work. The goal is not to generalize student journalism as a whole, but to examine how one set of reports aged when confronted with time, policy, and outcome.
This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with San Francisco State University, the Golden Gate Press, or any successor publication. The views expressed in the follow-up analyses reflect my present-day assessment, not the editorial positions of the original newsroom.