KTVU-TV (Fox), KTVU.com
SFGate.com, San Francisco Chronicle
The partners received funding for a project about the hidden costs of the affluence that accompanied the Bay Area’s high-tech boom only to have the boom implode before the project ever got started. The result was a series charting and explaining the region’s master narrative as it was happening.
“After the Boom” explored in print and on air such phenomena as “millionaires for a minute,” about Bay Area residents whose fortunes rose and fell with alarming speed and “gloaters” who reveled in the comeuppance of the young people who floated on the dot-com bubble. Other topics included the impact of the bust on charitable giving and the transformation in the values and expectations of business school graduates.
Stories began April 29, 2001 in the Chronicle, on KTVU and on both their Web sites. Monthly installments ran through the summer, when the project was interrupted by the sale of the Chronicle. Plans were underway to complete the project in the spring of 2003 with a public forum on the economy.
Contact:
Roland De Wolk
Producer
KTVU-TV (Fox)
2 Jack London Square
Oakland, CA 94605
Phone: (510) 874-0516
Email: roland@sfsu.edu