Program Description

If you’re one of the many who read Joe Garofoli’s regular column in the San Francisco Chronicle, then this program needs no introduction. If not, you need to know that Mr. Garofoli is one of the Bay Area’s most notable political journalists, whose columns cover every angle of politics and policy here in Northern California but also around the country. 

Join us for an engaging conversation as San Francisco Chronicle senior political writer Joe Garofoli is interviewed by longtime political analyst and moderator Greg Brockbank. Joe Garofoli, the Chronicle’s veteran politics reporter, brings his decades of insight into California and national politics, elections, and media trends.

This program will provide timely analysis of today’s political climate, media coverage, and what’s ahead in the upcoming election cycle. With Brockbank’s probing questions and Garofoli’s insider perspective, the discussion is lively, informative, and thought-provoking.

Speaker Bio

Joe Garofoli is the San Francisco Chronicle’s senior political writer, covering national and state politics. He has worked at The Chronicle since 2000 and in Bay Area journalism since 1992, when he left the Milwaukee Journal. He was the host of “It’s All Political,” the Chronicle’s longtime political podcast until the Chronicle ceased all of its podcast productions. In 2021 he won the Webby Award for Best Documentary podcast for “Chronicled: Who is Kamala Harris?”  

He has won numerous awards  — including the Polk Award in 2021 — and covered everything from fashion to the Jeffrey Dahmer serial killings to two Olympic Games to his own vasectomy — which he discussed on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” after being told he couldn’t say the word “balls” on the air. He regularly appears on Bay Area radio and TV talking politics and is available to entertain at bar mitzvahs and First Communions. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and a proud native of Pittsburgh.