Martin G. Reynolds is co-executive director of The Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. Martin oversees fundraising, client relations & external affairs and serves as the institute’s lead Fault Lines diversity trainer. He is the co-founder of Oakland Voices, an award-winning storytelling project that trains residents to serve as community correspondents. The program is now in entering it 15th year. He previously served as director of the Reveal Investigative Fellowship with the Center for Investigative Reporting. Reynolds served on the board of directors for the David and Reva Logan Family Foundation between 2020 and February 2023.

He currently serves on the board of directors of Cityside, the parent company to Berkeleyside, Oaklandside and Richmondside, award-winning hyper-local news sites in the Bay Area. His journalism career with Bay Area News Group spanned 18 years and many roles; among them, managing editor and editor-in-chief of The Oakland Tribune. Reynolds was also a lead editor on the Chauncey Bailey Project, formed in 2007 to investigate his slaying.

He is a professional lyricist and, among his many musical endeavors, was part of a live album recorded with his band Mingus Amungus in Havana, Cuba.

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