Radin, Patricia K.


Patricia a longtime Bay Area journalist who worked many years as an Oakland Tribune reporter and night editor, and at newspapers in the Livermore-Pleasanton area, died Saturday night June 1, 2003 at her home in Oakland. She was 57. A family member said the cause of death apparently was a heart attack. Patricia Radin was an award-winning journalist and editor who made a mid-life career change to academia after many years of working at daily newspapers. She went back to school to obtain advanced degrees – a master's degree in science and technology policy at the Research Policy Institute at the University of Lund, Sweden, and a Ph.D. in communications from the University of Washington, Seattle – and was hired as an assistant professor of communication at California State University – Hayward. 

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