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About us
Feder-Sawyer Media offers a rich collaboration of services provided by media professionals.
Services we offer include writing, editing, ghost writing, photography, video, audio and all phases of media production.
On this site, you will find bios from a plethora of professionals in their fields from a variety of locations.
This site was created by and is managed by Larry Sawyer and Mandy Feder-Sawyer.
Professional Profiles
Meet our team
Mandy Feder-Sawyer
Mandy Feder-Sawyer brings a rich history of journalism experience gained at publications all over the world. Currently an instructor of journalism at California State University, Chico, she also writes and serves as a writer and editor in many capacities outside of her fulfilling teaching career.
She’s been managing editor for Lake County Publishing (which publishes the Lake County Record-Bee) and the Tahoe Daily Tribune; an assistant producer with BBC/PBS “Frontline;” a freelancer and contributor with several publications, including The New York Times, Chico/Sacramento/Reno News & Review, National Geographic online and Entrepreneur Magazine; a book editor and reviewer; and emergency response public information officer for the County of Lake.
Along the way, she’s picked up numerous awards, including the Hearst Newspaper Award for in-depth writing and both California and Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association awards.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/us/california-mill-fire.html
https://www.newsreview.com/chico/content/the-third-sex/246385/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/fire-in-paradise/credits/
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-55153271
Pricing: $75 per hour
Mandy Feder-Sawyer
Phone: 530-518-0848
Email:
mandyfeder@yahoo.com
Monica Stark
From photographing body bags on the side of the road to writing about teacher-student sex scandals, pot busts, a duck lady, an even quirkier turtle lady and the “alleged” squirrel shooter who fell off the roof of his house to his demise – Monica Stark’s 15 years as a journalist have generated adventures every day.
Stark started covering the largest graduate student strike in the nation’s history two weeks after starting at the Davis Enterprise on Halloween, 2022. She hails from San Jose, where her parents, both United States Postal Service workers, instilled a hard work ethic.
Her mother was a farmworker in the Salinas Valley, and her uncle was, at times, a bodyguard for Cesar Chavez and fought for human rights until he died in March 2022. Stark works with preservation groups to preserve his legacy and his extensive collection of farmworker memorabilia from the ‘60s onward.
Stark graduated with a Bachelor’s of Arts in English from U.C. Berkeley in 2004. She moved to Sacramento to start a teaching credential because the writer’s market was shrinking then – good to have a fallback. But her love for journalism is strong, and she landed a full-time reporter position at the Woodland Daily Democrat, covering almost every beat: city, business, education, and court/police.
A few years later, in 2008, Monica moved to Ukiah, where she became the features editor of the Ukiah Daily Journal, where unusual small-town stories and colorful “hipnecks” dominated the news stories.
In 2010 Stark moved back to Sacramento for significant life changes and, in 2011, landed a dream job: the editor of Valley Community Newspapers, where she covered neighborhood news for the Land Park News, Pocket News, Arden-Carmichael News, and East Sacramento News. She managed a staff of freelancers and community contributors at each of these bi-weekly papers. During that time, she picked up the editor role at The West Sacramento News-Ledger, a weekly community newspaper.
The 2020 Coronavirus pandemic spelled a dramatic loss in advertising income to hire community contributors and the papers shrank. During the too-slow recovery, Stark re-initialized her fallback career as a full-time English teacher in Galt and then Arden/Arcade. As a subscriber to the Davis Enterprise, Monica saw a rare opening for a full-time reporter and is proud to work alongside such a talented and professional team of journalists.
Pricing: $75 per hour
Monica Stark
Phone: 530-601-6883
Email:
maunalai@gmail.com