ABOUT
Will Carruthers is an award-winning reporter and editor based in California. He is currently a student at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and a researcher at the Police Records Access Project.
Will’s work has been featured by Project Censored, Politico’s California Playbook and IRE’s Local Matters weekly newsletter.
WORK
NEWS:
Under Pressure From Residents, Oakland Council Committee Backs Off License Plate-Reader Contract | Oakland North
Sonoma County Quarry Faces $8.6 Million Water Board Fine | North Bay Bohemian
In California, Climate Change Fuels Disasters—and a Push For More Farmworker Protections | Modern Farmer
Santa Rosa Student Journalists Cover Campus Safety Protests, Gun Scares | North Bay Bohemian
Amazon Labor Union Leader Chris Smalls Tours Sonoma County | North Bay Bohemian
Petaluma Copperfield’s Books Workers Launch Union Effort | North Bay Bohemian
FEATURES:
Nice Ice — Snoopy’s Senior Hockey Tournament Draws a Friendly Crowd | North Bay Bohemian
Subjective Research — Sebastopol Artists Showcase a ‘Mega Toad’ in a Rabbit Hole | North Bay Bohemian
At 92, San Francisco’s Last Abstract Expressionist Keeps Painting | Hoodline
INVESTIGATIONS:
Train Lines — How Two Press Democrat Owners Finessed a Petaluma Real Estate Deal | North Bay Bohemian and Pacific Sun
Cream and Punishment — Tracking a Dairy Man’s History of Code Violations | North Bay Bohemian
Charity Case — Investigating PG&E-funded Rebuild North Bay Foundation | with Peter Byrne | North Bay Bohemian
Juiced — PG&E Poured $2 million Into the Rebuild North Bay Foundation as the Utility Ramped up Its Political Machine After 2017 Wildfires | North Bay Bohemian
AWARDS
2021
2020 (with Chelsea Kurnick)
2019 (with Peter Byrne)
