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A freelance journalist for over 10 years, Anne is an editor and writer for YourFamilyViewer.com, and OddBallGrape.com.  As a news reporter, she's covered the cities of Culver City, Glendale, Pasadena, West Hollywood, as well as served as guest editor for several West L.A. County Patch sites.

Liz is a South Bay native who lives in Manhattan Beach. She graduated from Cal StateLong Beach with a bachelors degree in journalism. She has worked for the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, the Daily Breeze, Mattel, Inc., RAND Corporation and Music Rhapsody. Check out her Welcome video,  follow the site on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook.

Erin DeWitt is the calendar editor for Patch.

Travis made the move to Southern California from Minnesota to join the Patch team as the local Advertising Manager for the South Bay area Patches in the summer of 2011. He is a University of Minnesota-Twin Cities graduate with a degree in Advertising & Management. When he isn't working you can find him playing flag football, golfing, running The Strand, and at all the coffee shops around the South Bay. Travis is very excited to live and work in Hermosa Beach, network and patronize with our local businesses, and he looks forward to meeting all of you! Email him at travis.roznos@patch.com or call him at 310.729.5204

Brantley is an associate local editor for Patch in Los Angeles. He graduated from UCLA in 2011 with a degree in English. He served three years as a staff writer for The Daily Bruin and served as sports editor in 2009-10. He was afforded the opportunity to travel cross-country to cover several UCLA sporting events, including trips to Atlanta, Georgia and St. Paul, Minnesota. He was also a member of UCLA Sports Radio for two years and previously freelanced for Patch beginning in 2009. In his senior year at UCLA, Brantley completed a public relations internship with the Los Angeles Lakers which allowed him to meet with and learn from several influential Los Angeles-based journalists. In the summer of 2011, Brantley completed a 10-week summer internship program with Patch, in which he reported for sites in Northern California. Before being hired by Patch, he was a regular freelancer and guest editor for several months.

Philip has long been recognized as “The Voice” of the Southern California sport fishing industry and has an international, multimedia presence in the recreational tourism and sports industries. He regularly contributes to multiple Patch sites, sportfishing websites and newspapers.

I am a freelance photojournalist and hold a Masters degree in photojournalism from the University of Missouri.  After living in Australia for the past year while working on a documentary project, I am now living in Redondo Beach.

Ron Dam was born in California and has lived there for most of his life. He spent 11 years as a Buddhist monk prior to attending Califormia State University, Long Beach, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism. His love for news videography started at the university's paper, the Daily 49er. Since then, he has dedicated much of his time to filming for Patch.

Sylwia M. Ozdzynski was born in Poland. Photojournalism is her passion. She is a resident of Torrance. www.sozdzynski.com

Phil Meyer is Professor Emeritus in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and was inducted into the North Carolina Hall of Fame in Journalism in the spring of 2008.  He joined the Journalism School in 1981 and served as Knight Chair in Journalism Professor from 1993-2008.  Prior to joining the school, he held a number of reporter and research positions at various media outlets. 

He has won numerous awards including the 2005 Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for Research About Journalism (with Scott Maier). He was named a Fellow of Society of Professional Journalists in 2005. In 2004, the Newspaper Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication gave him its Professional Freedom and Responsibility Award. And in 2000 he received the American Association for Public Opinion Research Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement.

Meyer is the author of several books including The Vanishing Newspaper:  Saving Journalism in the Information Age and Precision Journalism:  A Reporter’s Introduction to Social Science Methods.  Journalism Quarterly in 2000 listed this book as one of the 35 significant books of the 20th century in journalism and mass communication; and the American Association for Public Opinion Research, observing its 50th anniversary in 1996, listed it as one of 50 significant books on public opinion research.

He received his B.S. in technical journalism from Kansas State University and his M.A. in political science from the University of North Carolina.

Jeff Jarvis is the associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York’s new Graduate School of Journalism.  He also blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com; is consulting editor of Daylife; writes a media column for the Guardian, and consults for media companies.

Prior to his current responsibilities, Jarvis held positions including president and creative director of Advance.net; creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; Sunday editor and associated publisher of the New York Daily News; TV critic for TV Guide and People; a columnist for the San Francisco Examiner; assistant city editor and reporter for the Chicago Tribune and reporter for Chicago Today.

Jarvis is the author of What Would Google Do?

Steven Berlin Johnson is a pioneer in the web world, as a co-founder of FEED, Plastic.com, and Outside.in, which was acquired by Patch in March of 2011. He also co-created Findings.com, which launched in late 2011. Steven was the 2009 Hearst New Media Professional-in-Residence at The Journalism School at Columbia University, and served for several years as a Distinguished Writer in Residence at NYU’s Journalism School. He is a bestselling author of seven books, and won acclaim and a Newhouse School Mirror Award for his 2010 Time Magazine cover story, "How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live." 

Speaking of Steven's editorial prowess, check out this video based on Steven's book, Where Good Ideas Come From, which was named one of the best books of 2010 by The Economist.