Jesse Marx joins JMS as student media manager

The School of Journalism and Media Studies (JMS) welcomes Jesse Marx as the new student media manager. In this new role, he will oversee the Daily Aztec and KCR and work with them to help build the best student media product in the country. 

“San Diego is facing a myriad of crises — social, economic, environmental — and deserves great journalism,” Marx commented. “SDSU has long served as an important training ground for reporters, editors and photographers, and I’m ecstatic to be in a position to mentor the next generation as media continue to evolve.” 

Jesse Marx is a journalist whose work focuses on police, politics and labor in a time of rising inequality. He is the former deputy investigative editor at the San Francisco Chronicle and former associate editor at Voice of San Diego, where he managed the internship program and mentored students primarily from SDSU, City College and Southwestern Community College. 

His reporting on police technology was cited by the grassroots coalition that wrote San Diego’s surveillance ordinance, and his reporting on cops with criminal records led to reforms at the state level. Other stories on Covid-19-related deaths earned his reporting team the First Amendment Coalition’s 2021 Free Speech & Open Government Award and SPJ San Diego’s 2022 First Amendment Award. 

His byline has also appeared in Wired, The Nation, In These Times and San Diego Magazine, and he helped launch the community newspaper All Rise. He is co-author of “Redacted,” a book about state secrecy and public records, and a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School. 

Temple Northup, director of JMS, is thrilled with this new addition to the school.

“What we are getting with Jesse is someone who has both experience in the newsroom and also a track record of mentoring students. I am excited to see how he is able to work with students from not only JMS but across campus to cover our community in new and exciting ways.”