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The largest, most respected LGBTQ+ publication in our region.
What is Outword Magazine?
A Sacramento native, this writer and journalist said, “Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”
Who is Joan Didion?
Solving Sac published this many stories in 2023. (Hint: >35, <45)
What is 41?
A sports stringer in high school, this editor-in-chief got his start in the business way before that as a paperboy delivering the San Mateo Times.
Who is Adam Steinhauer?
The Days of '49 Facial Hair Growing Contest of 1922 was thought up in a bid to draw tourism to our region by this local organization.
Who is the Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce?
The year The Sacramento Observer was founded.
What is 1962?
A favorite among journalism movies, this one contains the line, "Do you know more people die in the East Bay commute every three months than that idiot ever killed?"
What is "Zodiac (2007)?"
The total number of original Solving Sac stories published to date (since 2022). (Hint: >70)
What is 77?
This journalist and editor’s first job was being a busboy at an old-school Italian restaurant where the owner would scream, throw pots and pans and threaten to shoot down planes with his Elephant gun.
Who is Scott T. Anderson?
This editor (1858–1936) felt so strongly about our "City of Trees" reputation that he would write obituaries in the Bee for vandalized trees.
Who is Charles Kenny McClatchy?
Having had a print circulation of 80,000 and cumulative readership of roughly 330,000, this publication was founded 1989.
What is the Sacramento News & Review?
The "City’s Stages Hit Hard By Dwindling Audiences" story motivated a California state senator to secure $1 million in unrestricted operating funds through a Senate Bill for this arts organization.
What is B Street Theatre?
This is the total number of cross-published Solving Sac stories. (Hint: >100)
What is 106?
This president and publisher got his start in the news business as a paperboy for the Cleveland Press, during which he won a trip to the 1964 World Fair for selling the most subscriptions in Ohio.
Who is Jeff vonKaenel?
The crew of this film only spent a week in the capital city the movie was set in, the rest of filming took place in Los Angeles. (Still, we're proud!)
What is "Lady Bird?"
Russian American Media caters to Slavic communities, including the ___ Russian-speaking residents living in California.
What is 1,100,000?
From Solving Sac’s first “Suds & Solutions” event, which housing developer said in an interview, “We’re not doing this out of charity, and that’s a good thing, because charity is hard to replicate and scale up.” (Hint: Event took place at Taste Bud’s BBQ)
Who is John Vignocchi? (Urban Capital co-founder & developer)
This arts story was published by the most member outlets (4/7) April 2023. (Hint: Youth story)
What is "Balance Dance Project in Sacramento’s Tahoe Park makes dance more accessible to all youth?"
This journalist spent 3 months being one of Anna Wintour's three assistants at Vogue magazine, living "The Devil Wears Prada" life before going into business journalism.
Who is Vanessa Richardson?
This historic leader, who recently celebrated a birthday, gave a speech to more than 6,000 people where Sac State's Hornet Stadium now stands in 1967.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
Sacramento Business Journal is part of a network of this many American City Business Journals, the largest publisher of metropolitan business newsweeklies in the United States.
What is 44?
This journalism movie contains the line, "Sometimes it's easy to forget that we spend most of our time stumbling around the dark. Suddenly, a light gets turned on and there's a fair share of blame to go around. I can't speak to what happened before I arrived, but all of you have done some very good reporting here. Reporting that I believe is going to have an immediate and considerable impact on our readers. For me, this kind of story is why we do this.”
What is "Spotlight (2015)?" (Said by Marty Baron)
The Solutions Journalism Network grant that funded much of our housing affordability and homelessness coverage over the last two years was in the amount of $___.
What is $200,000?
This journalist and editor's first job was working at now shuttered Awesome Video, one of the region's last video rental shops boasting over 10,000 titles in its heyday.
Who is Sena Christian? (AKA Queen of Solving Sac)
This is the only museum in the Sacramento region accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, a recognition given to fewer than 1,100 of the nation's ~35,000 museums.
What is the Crocker Art Museum?