Eric Zassenhaus Interim Managing Editor, Digital
Eric Zassenhaus is interim Managing Editor, Digital for KPCC. Prior to joining KPCC, Eric worked at KTVU in Oakland and assisted mid-career reporters in learning new skills at UC Berkeley's Knight Digital Media Center.
Zassenhaus has also served as editor at several magazines and as art director at Tikkun magazine in San Francisco. He has worked at several book publishers, including City Lights Books, where he cut his teeth building the publisher/bookstore's Web site.
Zassenhaus is graduated from U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School for Journalism, where he concentrated in Web and multimedia journalism.
Stories by Eric Zassenhaus
Downtown fire damages businesses, injures fire captain
By Hayley Fox and Eric Zassenhaus | blogdowntown
An early morning fire near Santee Alley in L.A.'s Fashion District damaged four businesses and injured one LAFD captain.
California prisons ready to expand home detention program for women inmates
By Julie Small
Tuesday was a benchmark day for California prisons. A federal court order requires the state to reduce its prison population by 10,000 inmates. The first progress report is due today.
Updated: Police clear Occupy LA camp; 292 arrested in massive raid
By KPCC staff | KPCC & wires
Los Angeles police moved in on the nearly two-month old Occupy L.A. encampment early Wednesday morning, arresting the protesters who'd remained in City Hall Park despite a deadline by the mayor for protesters to vacate the area by Monday.
Occupy LA eviction deadline passes, protesters remain
The deadline for Occupy L.A. protesters to evacuate their encampment at City Hall passed relatively peacefully Monday morning. As of 3 a.m., Los Angeles police had yet to forcibly evict protesters. There were no reports of arrests.
City officials say they will evict encampment next week
By Frank Stoltze | KPCC & wires
Negotiators for Occupy L.A. protesters said they were told by city officials today that they will have to move their City Hall encampment "sometime next week" and possibly as early as Monday. Deputy Mayor Matt Szabo has confirmed.
Prison hunger strike over, prison official says
The head of the state corrections department said Thursday that a three-week hunger strike by hundreds of California inmates has come to an end, although a group that has been suppporting the prisoners said they couldn't confirm that.
