Tess Townsend

The Sacramento Bee • 4th November 2019

40 tenants got eviction notices at Sacramento apartment complex. Here’s who is responsible

I searched court documents to find the identities of individuals responsible for evicting 40 largely low-income tenants from a local apartment building.

Intelligencer • 4th December 2017

Keith Ellison Wants to Know Exactly How Bad Mergers Have Been for the Public

“We have a data problem,” Keith Ellison says. He’s talking about mergers, like yesterday’s proposed purchase of Aetna by CVS, or this summer’s between Amazon and Whole Foods. “We don’t collect and have enough information that will help do the evaluation as to whether or not a given merger that takes place actually yielded the benefits that were promised.” So the Minnesota Democrat and co-chair of the DNC is going to try to fix that — along with the newly formed Congressional Antitrust Caucus. A

Inc.com • 19th April 2016

How This Startup Is Disrupting Long-Distance Transportation Right Now

A Stanford dropout and serial entrepreneur set out to build a city of remote workers making their living in virtual reality. His far-fetched idea led him to one that's shockingly mundane: A bus between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Inc.com • 10th November 2016

Mark Zuckerberg: Don't Blame Facebook for Trump's Election Victory

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told an audience at the Techonomy conference in Half Moon Bay hoax news stories make up only a small portion of content on the platform.

Vox • 14th June 2017

Box is releasing a tool to make it easier for large companies to shift workloads to the cloud

Box is releasing a new tool called Box Drive, which is aimed at making it easier for companies to shift workloads to cloud storage without having to change the way employees access files from their desktops.

Vox • 31st May 2017

Companies don’t want to get locked in to cloud services

In 2015, 22 percent of respondents said they were concerned about lock-in, compared with 7 percent in 2012, according to Meeker. The data cited comes from Bain and Morgan Stanley.

Vox • 18th April 2017

Google’s cloud clients now have full access to its speech recognition software

Google has released an improved version of its speech software for its cloud customers, and is allowing them to use the software more widely. The software is used for tasks such as transcription and voice commands.

Vox • 4th February 2017

Snap looks like it’s Google Cloud’s biggest customer

Snap Inc. is one of Google’s biggest cloud customers. The question is, just how big?

Inc.com • 27th October 2016

Box CEO Aaron Levie Describes His Vision of an Instant-Access Future

In Box CEO Aaron Levie's vision of the future -- at least, the future of enterprise technology -- everything is instantaneous.

Inc.com • 24th May 2016

This Startup Is Playing Midwife to the Internet of Things--and Attracting Investors

In many ways, it was a match made in heaven. Mitchell Hashimoto taught himself programming at age 12; Armon Dadgar started college when he was 16. You get the picture. For Inc.'s 2016 30 Under 30 list.

Journalists in Classrooms • 23rd February 2019

Journalists in Classrooms

I coordinated a grassroots community organization that promoted news literacy among k-12 students by sending reporters into classrooms as guest speakers. We conducted roughly 50 classroom visits from 2018-2021.

SPJ • 30th April 2020

SPJ #Press4Education: Reporting Basics - YouTube

This "reporting basics" video is part of a Society of Professional Journalists volunteer effort to create remote learning-friendly resources for teachers and students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Hopefully the educational value of the video makes up for the amature production quality :) Made this from home, of course.

SPJ • 30th April 2020

SPJ #Press4Education: Fake News - YouTube

This video on how youth can spot fake news is part of a Society of Professional Journalists volunteer effort to create remote learning-friendly resources for teachers and students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Please excuse the amature production quality :) Hopefully the educational value makes up for it.

The Sacramento Bee • 5th March 2020

I asked Sacramentans what they wanted me to write about. Here’s what you told me

My column on what Sacramento Bee readers told me by Google form, email or phone message about what topics they wanted to see me cover.

The Sacramento Bee • 13th February 2020

I love my cat. But Sacramento shouldn’t get so worked up about coyotes in Midtown

How could my precious fluffy-butt baby kitty be an alien invasive species?

The Sacramento Bee • 2nd January 2020

It’s about more than high rent. Welcome to the post-Great Recession housing crisis

This column explores the motivations behind a contentious push by tenant advocates in Sacramento.

The Sacramento Bee • 30th October 2019

Sacramento council ignored climate activists. Will they listen now that California is burning?

This opinion column calls on the City of Sacramento to declare a climate emergency.

The Sacramento Bee • 28th October 2019

Sacramento is dangerous for walking, biking. Here’s your plan to make both safer

This story responded to questions and concerns posed by readers in a survey. The goal was to engage the audience and demonstrate responsive reporting.

The Sacramento Bee • 23rd September 2019

I’m The Bee’s newest opinion columnist, and I want to hear from you

My introductory column as an opinion writer for The Sacramento Bee.

Sacramento News & Review • 8th August 2019

Prepping for disaster: Eight ways to be ready in the climate change era

This piece looks at the local impacts of climate change in the Sacramento region and how people can prepare.