Trey Bundy
Oakland,CA
Summary
Experienced investigative reporter, producer, and editor specializing in deep-dive accountability stories across multiple platforms.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Editorial Consultant
Volume & Tone Consulting
Oakland, CA
07.2022 - Current
- Developing and editing investigative reporting projects.
- Developing podcasts and television documentaries.
- Editing reports, studies, proposals, nonfiction books, novels, and scripted television projects.
- Mentoring reporters.
Editor
The Intersection
Fresno, CA
05.2024 - Current
- Building a collaborative of local newsrooms across the Central Valley and the state to cover health equity.
- Developing reporting strategies and directing coverage.
- Supervising and editing reporters in multiple newsrooms.
- Developing partnerships with newsrooms and university journalism programs.
- Developing publication, distribution, and engagement strategies.
- Designing trainings for journalists covering health issues.
- Producing, writing, and editing audio stories to air on public and commercial radio stations.
- Training journalists to gather audio and produce stories for radio and podcasts.
- Mentoring reporters.
Editor In Residence
Napa Community Journalism Lab
Napa, CA
01.2024 - 10.2024
- Designing and supervising a local reporting collaborative between newsrooms in Napa.
- Developing reporting strategies and directing coverage.
- Supervising a team of four reporters.
- Editing enterprise stories focused on mental health, housing, and education.
- Training reporters to gather audio and produce stories for radio and podcasts.
- Developing partnerships between local newsrooms and media outlets that typically compete with each other.
- Developing partnerships with college journalism programs.
- Mentoring reporters.
Editor / Content Strategist
Studiotobe
Oakland, CA
08.2022 - 06.2023
- Developed podcasts, reporting initiatives, and scripted television projects.
- Advised local newsrooms on content, multi-platform, and engagement strategies.
- Trained emerging journalists and podcasters to produce powerful audio stories in the public interest.
- Edited proposals, studies, and reports related to health and health equity in California.
Reporter / Producer
Reveal / The Center For Investigative Reporting
Emeryville, CA
05.2012 - 07.2022
- Covered child welfare, social services, education, police, courts, incarceration, elections, democracy, religion, and public finance.
- Developed and executed large-scale accountability investigations requiring deep source cultivation, public records access, data work, and extensive field reporting.
- Wrote long-form text stories and produced multi-part television and radio documentaries.
- Wrote production scripts, edited audio, developed partner relationships, appeared on camera, narrated radio episodes, and managed projects from pre-production through post-production.
- Furthered Reveal's audience-engagement and multi-platform ambitions by telling stories through animation, comics, virtual reality, poetry collaborations, live events, conferences, and interactive pop-up journalism venues.
Lecturer
San Francisco State University
08.2013 - 12.2013
- Taught advanced writing and reporting in the undergraduate journalism program.
- Designed a syllabus that emphasized accountability reporting and investigative techniques.
- Guided and edited the work of 20 student journalists.
Reporter / Columnist
The Bay Citizen
San Francisco , CA
05.2010 - 05.2012
- Covered child welfare, social services, education, police, courts, incarceration, and elections.
- Produced breaking, enterprise, and investigative stories for The Bay Citizen website and the Bay Area pages of The New York Times.
Staff Writer
The San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco, CA
01.2009 - 01.2011
- Wrote feature stories about arts, culture, and lifestyle.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Journalism
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA01.2010
Skills
- Strong editing skills that bring energy and clarity to complex investigations, long-form features, television and radio scripts, and daily news copy
- Strong line editing, copy editing, and fact checking skills
- Strong project management skills, including choosing investigations, devising reporting strategies, story mapping, developing partner relationships, supervising personnel, and leading multi-platform projects through pre-production, production, and post-production
- Extensive experience mentoring reporters on investigative strategies, source cultivation, storytelling, fact checking, ethics, multi-platform journalism, and interviewing vulnerable sources
- Strong writing skills, including daily news copy, television and radio scripts, and long-form text stories that balance compelling narratives and investigative findings
- Strong investigative reporting skills, including source cultivation, field reporting, backgrounding people and organizations, accessing and analyzing public records, bulletproofing investigations, and collaborating with data teams
- Extensive experience interviewing whistle blowers, public officials, bureaucrats, police, judges, lawyers, adversarial sources, incarcerated individuals, trauma survivors, and people facing extreme hardship or backlash
- Strong radio and video production skills, including gathering and editing audio, writing production scripts, voicing radio stories, and appearing on camera
- Strong audience engagement skills, including appearing on radio and television, telling stories on audience-specific platforms, and organizing and running conferences, trainings, and other live events
Timeline
Editor
The Intersection
05.2024 - Current
Editor In Residence
Napa Community Journalism Lab
01.2024 - 10.2024
Editor / Content Strategist
Studiotobe
08.2022 - 06.2023
Editorial Consultant
Volume & Tone Consulting
07.2022 - Current
Lecturer
San Francisco State University
08.2013 - 12.2013
Reporter / Producer
Reveal / The Center For Investigative Reporting
05.2012 - 07.2022
Reporter / Columnist
The Bay Citizen
05.2010 - 05.2012
Staff Writer
The San Francisco Chronicle
01.2009 - 01.2011
Bachelor of Arts - Journalism
San Francisco State University
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