Andrew Keatts
Editor & General Manager
Andrew Keatts has been a distinguished journalist in San Diego for 15 years. He was a reporter for The Daily Transcript, an investigative reporter and later managing editor at Voice of San Diego. and most recently launched Axios San Diego. In 2018, the San Diego Society of Professional Journalists named him journalist of the year. Keatts is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University. He lives in Golden Hill with his wife and two young sons.
Chris Jennewein
Founder & Senior Editor
Chris Jennewein has 55 years of experience in media. Prior to starting Times of San Diego, he was associate editorial director for Patch.com in Southern California and president of San Diego News Network. From 2001 to 2008 Jennewein led The San Diego Union-Tribune’s SignOnSanDiego.com, one of the most popular and profitable newspaper websites. Previously he was vice president of operations for Knight Ridder Digital in San Jose. Under Jennewein’s leadership, Knight Ridder introduced the nation’s first complete online newspaper at the San Jose Mercury News in 1993. Jennewein is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economics. He also serves as editorial director of MyNewsLA.com.
Editing staff
Brooke Binkowski
News Editor
Brooke Binkowski is an award-winning journalist whose career has taken her all over the world and back to San Diego again. She has worked as a multimedia journalist covering the U.S.-Mexico border for NPR, a breaking news reporter for KPCC and KNX in Los Angeles, and since 2015 she has worked as a counter-disinformation journalist, spending the last several years running debunking sites TruthOrFiction.com and Snopes.com. She is also a third-generation San Diego journalist who grew up in the newsroom of the Lemon Grove Review, where her grandfather was the publisher.
Jennifer Vigil
News Editor
Jennifer Vigil is an award-winning journalist whose content has been featured in print, web and broadcast venues including the San Diego Union-Tribune, Patch, the Chicago Tribune and the Huffington Post. She is experienced in traditional and advanced news gathering methods, including reporting, still photography and video, and driving traffic to web sites using SEO and social media. She has provided on-air commentary for national and local media outlets, including Fox News and PBS.
Dorian Hargrove
News Editor
Dorian Hargrove is a four-time Emmy Award winning investigative journalist and producer, known for his watchdog reporting on local government and social justice issues. In addition to working as a journalist, he teaches investigative journalism at San Diego State University. He covers public accountability issues and is an editor at Times of San Diego. He lives in San Carlos with his wife and two boys.
Tessa Balc
Audience Engagement Producer
Tessa Balc oversees newsletters, social media and focuses on audience growth. She has interned at Voice of San Diego, the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce and Center for Justice & Reconciliation. She served as news editor for The Point Weekly at Point Loma Nazarene University, where she double-majored in political science and multimedia journalism with a writing concentration.
Thomas Melville
Community Newspapers Editor
Thomas Melville has been the editor of La Jolla Village News, Beach & Bay Press and Peninsula Beacon newspapers since 2015. Melville, a New York native, is an award-winning journalist who has worked for national and regional magazines, daily and weekly newspapers, and websites for nearly 30 years from New York to North Carolina to Maryland, and now California. He has covered everything from professional sports teams to hurricanes to the Día de los Muertos parade in Mexico City. He helped create and became a minority owner and editor of a successful weekly newspaper in Ocean City, Maryland. In 2012, he moved to California and edited a digital magazine before reuniting with his first love, newspapers.
Chris Baker
Production Coordinator
Chris Baker is a San Diego native and graduate of San Diego State University, Baker has worked in local newsrooms for over 20 years as a graphic artist and production manager in both print and digital media. Outside of work, he can be found cycling around the bay, hiking local trails and continuing his Japanese language studies.
Arturo Garcia
Weekend Editor
Arturo Garcia has written and reported for national outlets, including The Raw Story, Rolling Stone, TruthOrFiction.com and Snopes.com. He also was the managing editor for Racialicious.com, a pioneer in covering the intersection of race and pop culture.
Reporting and visuals staff
Lillian Perlmutter
Investigative Reporter
Lillian Perlmutter is NEWSWELL’s first organization-wide investigative reporter, focusing on immigration and based at Times of San Diego. She previously covered Latin America as an independent journalist in Mexico City, where she wrote for over 25 news outlets and magazines, including Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times and The New Republic. Her award-winning reporting has received support from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and the Women’s Media Center. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in politics and foreign languages from Scripps College in 2021. She is based in San Diego.
Drew Sitton
Communities Reporter
Drew Sitton started with San Diego Community Newspaper Group in 2019 during the acquisition of San Diego Community Newspaper Network. The lifelong San Diego resident was hired as editor of Uptown News. Now, they are a full-time reporter, covering the city’s core to East County. Sitton majored in mass communications and has work experience in national news organizations in addition to extensive local coverage.
Alejandro Maciel
Bilingual Audience Producer & Reporter, Tiempos de San Diego
Alejandro Maciel is a binational journalist whose career has unfolded in newsrooms and communities on both sides of the border. He has led Los Angeles Times en Español, served as deputy editor of El Diario/La Prensa in New York, and worked as an associate editor at People Magazine. He also spent time as a front‑page editor at La Opinión and has contributed to Radio Bilingüe, Radio Fórmula, and KPFK. Today, he helps shape the editorial direction of Tiempos de San Diego and is driven by a commitment to telling the stories that bring this region together and to bilingual journalism that informs, connects and truly serves the community.
Summer Interns
Andi Ruiz
Reporter
Andi Ruiz will be a third-year student at Arizona State University studying journalism and minoring in political science. She currently serves as The State Press’s politics desk editor and is a social media assistant for The BRIDGS Initiative. Local news is a passion for her and is determined to serve communities with credible and relevant news coverage.
Nicole Abrams
Reporter
Nicole Abrams will be a fourth year student at Boston University majoring in journalism and minoring in political science. Abrams is passionate about writing stories that inform and empower the community. She was born and raised in San Diego and is excited to come back home to report on the community that she grew up in.
Eileen Mamaghani
Reporter
Eileen Mamaghani is local to Arizona with Iranian roots, and has nearly completed her master’s in mass communication at Arizona State University’s Cronkite School. Her background in finance helps her with data and financial analysis, and she hopes to paint a bigger picture for San Diegans in community reporting.
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