ABOUT
Will Carruthers is an award-winning reporter and editor based in California. From 2019 through 2023, he served as news editor of the North Bay Bohemian and Pacific Sun, two beloved alternative weekly newspapers known for their investigative reporting. His journalism career started in San Francisco, where he studied at San Francisco State University and wrote about the city’s southern neighborhoods for the Ingleside-Excelsior Light newspaper and Hoodline, a hyper-local news site.
Will has written about the gentrification of San Francisco’s Broad-Randolf corridor, environmental pollution in the North Bay, PG&E’s political influence efforts, and conflicts of interest held by the owners of a local newspaper chain. In 2020, his work with Peter Byrne won a James Madison Freedom of Information Award from the Society of Professional Journalists’ NorCal Chapter.
Will’s work has been featured by Project Censored, Politico’s California Playbook and IRE’s Local Matters weekly newsletter.
He is available for freelance assignments. You can reach him at wrcarruthers (at) gmail.com.
WORK
NEWS:
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)
