• Charles Burress, Patch Staff Verified Patch Staff Badge

  • Berkeley, CA

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Phone: 510-435-4127

Now in my fourth year with Patch.com, I'm the editor of and Albany Patch and Berkeley Patch.

I worked many years as a staff writer and editor at the San Francisco Chronicle until April of 2009, when I switched to freelancing. I then wrote for the Los Angeles Times and other publications, and I also took on editing assignments for UC Berkeley and the United Nations.

Being an East Bay reporter for Patch brings my career full circle in the East Bay. My first bylines appeared in the East Bay Review of the Performing Arts. I next worked as a reporter and editor at the Daily Californian while studying at UC Berkeley, where I obtained a master's in journalism. I was a reporter at the Contra Costa Independent, Berkeley Gazette and San Francisco Examiner before moving to the Chronicle, where I worked several years in the Berkeley bureau and in the main East Bay bureau in Oakland.

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Another, Younger Side of 'Tiger Mother' Amy Chua

One of Amy Chua's classmates from her days at Portola Middle School and El Cerrito High talked to Patch about the teen who would become internationally famous as author of "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother."

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Another, Younger Side of 'Tiger Mother' Amy Chua
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