Susan Mernit is editor and publisher of Oakland Local, a news and community hub for
Oakland. A former vice president at AOL and Netscape, and a former Yahoo senior director, she was consulting program manager for The Knight News Challenge, and is a 2012 Stanford Carlos McClatchy Fellow. She is a former Senior Fellow for the Reporting on Health project at University of Southern California, and a facilitator for The Knight Digital Media Center at The Annenberg School of Journalism, USC.