Angela Woodall

PhD Researcher

Paris

PhD candidate, researcher, award-winning reporter, journalism professor

Angela Woodall

PhD Researcher

Paris

PhD candidate, researcher, award-winning reporter, journalism professor

Clinical Data and The Shifting Balance of Transparency and Privacy
Traditionally, clinical trials moved along a slow and cautious course, with research data closely guarded. Volunteers were recruited, given lengthy consent forms to sign and kept in the dark about findings until the trial ended. Technology is changing that. The first day Stanford University released the MyHeart Counts app on the iPhone, an astounding 11,000 people signed up.
Beautiful Brawlers
For women who box, staying amateur is better than turning pro.
Drought, Shutdown of Rancho Feeding Corp. Could Cripple Regrowth of California’s Independent, Grass-fed Livestock Producers
A worker on March 4 replacing the Rancho Feeding Corp. sign with Marin Sun Farmers. Marin Sun Farms bought the shuttered slaughterhouse and processing plant in Petaluma on Feb. 28. Photo: Angela Woodall/CHR. First it was the drought that dogged rancher Adam Gaska, who raises cows, sheep and Berkshire pigs on 2,000 acres of pastureland in Mendocino County.
HealthyCal.org
Women Veterans: The Difference an X Makes
In a war, both men and women will suffer from trauma. But researchers are finding that the way women hurt is different from men, especially when it comes to veterans who reported military sexual trauma. The experience of being sexually assaulted or harassed during their service put them at twice the risk of men for developing post traumatic stress disorder.
HealthyCal.org
Oakland feels the burden of the rise in temp employment
Unemployment in Alameda and Contra Costa counties has dropped to below 8 percent. But in East Oakland, joblessness runs as high as 35 percent, and it�s 45 percent in West Oakland, according to estimates from the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy.
Bay Area News Group - Alameda
Around the Bay Area, you're being watched
It’s not just the National Security Agency secretly vacuuming up your personal data. Local police agencies are increasingly adopting Big Data technologies such as automatic license-plate readers that gather information about everyone.
San Jose Mercury News
War on terror money funding drones, surveillance in the Bay Area
Critics worry that Homeland Security money is turning policing into combat, but supporters say the anti-terror program is making the community safer by preparing for any disaster.
Contra Costa Times
Oakland: Aging ex-felons face daunting prospects upon release from prison
Between 1995 and 2010, the number of state and federal prisoners age 55 or older nearly quadrupled nationwide, an escalation of 282 percent compared to a 42 percent increase in the number of all prisoners, according to a 2010 Human Rights Watch analysis of Bureau of Justice data.
Contra Costa Times
Alameda County sheriff's SWAT team travels to Jordan
The $13,000 tab for airfare to get to the U.S. -funded King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Center is being picked up by a private Castro Valley consultant, Cytel Group Inc. Founded by a former Alameda County assistant sheriff, James L. Baker, the small business received more than a half-million dollars in federal money from the Alameda County Sheriff�s Office to provide anti-terrorism tactical training and expertise.
Bay Area News Group - Alameda
ACMC changes name to Alameda Health System as Affordable Care Act reform nears
Ask most people in Alameda County what the letters ACMC stand for, and the response is usually a blank stare. Even by its full name, the Alameda County Medical Center was at best synonymous with Highland Hospital, whose high-profile reputation for trauma care was a mixed blessing. Cultivating a better image drove executives to change the name to the Alameda Health System.
Inside Bay Area
San Leandro lab PhaseSpace making virtual reality a household reality
PhaseSpace and experts like Stanford�s Jeremy Bailenson believe immersive virtual technology is poised to become mainstream.
San Jose Mercury News
Occupy policing blunder opens rifts in Oakland city hall
Angela Woodall: Fallout from Tuesday's heavyhanded police operation against Occupy Oakland may cost both mayor and police chief their jobs.
The Guardian (UK)
Oakland Chinatown in transition
The iconic Silver Dragon restaurant in Oakland Chinatown closed in February after ushering in the area�s renaissance and then representing its success for nearly six decades. Now the empty building is a painful symbol of an economic and demographic evolution that is forcing Chinatown to redefine itself.
San Jose Mercury News
Rise of a 'ganjapreneur'
Young Oakland businessman trying to take medical pot mainstream.
San Jose Mercury News
Military Sexual Trauma, PTSD and Domestic Violence Often Begin Before Service
Amber Yeager walked into a recruiter’s office 15 years ago in Sacramento and enlisted in the Army. She was 24, the mother of a toddler and desperate to escape violence and abuse at home, first as a young girl then as a wife. College was the only way she saw out and the Army was the only way to pay for it.
HealthyCal.org
Despite Errors, State Continues Enrolling Adults With Disabilities and the Elderly in New Health Program
Blane Beckwith, shown at his Berkeley home, is one of several independent living advocates suing the California Department of Health Care Services over the state’s Cal MediConnect program that merges Medi-Cal and Medicare services. Beckwith wants the state to make the choice to opt out of the program clear and rejects having a managed care plan handle his Medicare services.
HealthyCal.org

About

Angela Woodall

HTML

Digital Media

Data-Driven Journalism

Web 2.0

Journalism

Reporting

Feature Writing

Mapping

My work bridges journalism, rigorous scholarly research methods, and a background in digital technology development. This combination
comes from my experience as a Communications PhD candidate with more than a decade of experience as a newspaper reporter and participation in civic technology, including as the founder the prize-winning civic app project, Civic Playground. I also teach communications and new media at the CELSA-Sorbonne University (and previously at New York University and Fordham University). The work you see on this site reflect stories published before I left daily reporting to pursue a doctorate degree. My appreciations to the editors who helped to craft some of them into prize-winning stories.