Jerry Roberts is a California journalist who writes, blogs and hosts a TV talk show about politics, policy and media. Former political editor, editorial page editor and managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, he serves as student adviser for the Daily Nexus newspaper at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of “Never Let Them See You Cry,” a biography of Senator Dianne Feinstein.

Phil Trounstine is a communications consultant, pollster and political writer. He is the former political editor of the San Jose Mercury News, former communications director for California Gov. Gray Davis and was the founder and director of the Survey and Policy Research Institute at San Jose State University. He is co-author of “Movers and Shakers: The Study of Community Power.”

To create the new Calbuzz site, we recycled and remodeled the award-winning My California banner (the first collage of iconic pics from around the state) that the Schwarzenegger administration had tossed aside; asked our web designer, Patrick Wilkes, to radically modify a WordPress magazine theme; moved from Blogger over to Definition in San Francisco; hooked up with CPM Advisors for ad content.