Joanne Jacobs

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Welcome I was born in Chicago in 1952 and named after my grandfather, Joe Jacobs, who’d been a police reporter for the Omaha Bee-News. At the age of eight, my best friend and I decided that The Weekly Reader was “dumb” and that we could do better. As co-editors-in-chief, we produced The Wednesday Report for four years. It was just the beginning. ​ I attended public schools in Highland Park, Illinois and was graduated from Stanford University in 1974 with a B.A. in English and Creative Writing. I worked for Suburban Newspaper Publications and for Super8Filmaker magazine before joining the San Jose Mercury News in 1978 as editorial pages copy editor. After two years, I became an editorial writ

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