New America Media and the Maynard Institute have convened an array of Bay Area journalists, as well as highly respected media organizations and local university journalism departments to form an investigative team to honor and continue the work of journalist Chauncey Wendell Bailey Jr., and answer questions regarding his death. Bailey, the editor of the weekly Oakland Post, was murdered on Aug. 2 while reporting on a story regarding the suspicious activities of the Your Black Muslim Bakery.

In an unusual collaboration, more than two dozen reporters, photographers and editors from print, broadcast and electronic media, and journalism students are launching the Chauncey Bailey Project - an investigative unit that will continue and expand on the reporting Bailey was pursuing when he was gunned down. Devaughndre Broussard, 19, a handyman for Your Black Muslim Bakery, has confessed to the crime, according to police, but many questions about the possible motive for the killing have yet to be answered.

Participants in the The Chauncey Bailey Project are:

Executive editor:
Robert J. “Rosey” Rosenthal, executive director, Center for Investigative Reporting

Editors:
Ron Acker, video editor, KTVU-TV

Bruce B. Brugmann, editor and publisher, San Francisco Bay Guardian
Michelle Fitzhugh-Craig, city editor, Oakland Tribune
Steve Jones, city editor, San Francisco Bay Guardian

Michelle Maitre, assistant managing editor, Oakland Tribune
Mike Oliver , special projects editor, Bay Area News Group
Tim Redmond, executive editor, San Francisco Bay Guardian

Martin Reynolds, editor, Oakland Tribune
Pamela Turntine, night city editor, Oakland Tribune

Reporters:
Kristin Bender, Bay  Area News Group

Cecily Burt, Bay Area News Group
Bob Butler , independent journalist
Judy Campbell, KQED-FM
Roland De Wolk, KTVU-TV
Mary Fricker, independent journalist
Angela Hill, Bay Area News Group
Thomas Peele, Bay Area News Group
Josh Richman, Bay Area News Group

Paul T. Rosynsky, Bay Area News Group
G.W. Schulz, San Francisco Bay Guardian
A.C. Thompson, New America Media
Kevin Weston, New America Media

Writers, researchers, data analysts, contributors:
Douglas Fischer, Harry Harris, Ken Kim, Sally Lehrman, Veronica Martinez, Erin McKinney, Chris Metinko, Christine Morente, Dave Newhouse, Brenda Payton, Richard Prince, Kelly Rayburn, Lani Silver, Michael Stoll

Photographers and Multimedia:
D. Ross Cameron, Ray Chavez, Sean Connelley, Aric Crabb, Doug Duran, Antonio Franco, Tony Hodrick, Nick Lammers, Bob Larson, Karl Mondon, Laura A. Oda, Nancy Pastor, Dan Rosenstrauch

Online team:
Kara Andrade, Andrew Palma, Harris Rashid

Copy editors:
Kathy Miedema

Advisers:
Sandy Close, executive editor, New America Media; Neil Henry, dean, University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism; Linda Jue, director, New Voices in Independent Journalism; Dori Maynard, chief executive officer, Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education

Legal counsel:
Duffy Carolan of the Davis Wright Tremaine law firm, San Francisco

Student reporters:
Vianna Risa Davila, Marnette Federis, Nick Kusnetz, Robert Lewis, Lisa Pickoff-White, Lucie Schwartz

Fundraisers:
Bob Butler, Sandy Close, Neil Henry, Linda Jue, Dori Maynard, Robert Rosenthal

Funding for the project has been provided by, in chronological order:
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Sigma Delta Chi Foundation; Knight Foundation; George Washington Williams Fellowship, a project of New Voices in Independent Journalism; National Association of Black Journalists; The Newspaper Guild

Technical assistance is being provided by:
Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc.

Participating organizations:
Bay Area Black Journalists Association; Bay Area News Group (Contra Costa Times, Oakland Tribune, San Jose Mercury News, Fremont Argus, Hayward Daily Review, Tri-Valley Herald, Valley Times, East County Times, Alameda Times Star, San Mateo County Times); CBS 5; Center for Investigative Reporting; Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc.; KGO-AM; KQED Public Radio; KTVU-TV; Maynard Institute for Journalism Education; National Association of Black Journalists; New America Media; New Voices in Independent Journalism; San Francisco State University Journalism Department; San Francisco Bay Guardian; San Jose State University School of Journalism and Mass Communications; Sigma Delta Chi Foundation; Society of Professional Journalists - Northern California Chapter; University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism