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Staff
The current Publisher and President of the Marin Independent Journal is Rob Devincenzi. Previous to this position, Devincenzi was named editor and publisher of several South Bay weekly newspapers.

Awards
Staff of the Marin Independent Journal have won the following recent awards:

The Independent Journal won two first-place awards, three second-place awards and six "honorable mention" awards in the annual California News Publishers Association Better Newspapers Contest for 2016.

Winners were:

• Photographer Alan Dep, first place, for an online photo story/essay about a youth chess tournament.

• Editorial cartoonist George Russell, first place, for a cartoon about youth vaccinations.

• Reporter Paul Liberatore, second place, for best writing, a feature on the end of the Lawson’s Landing trailer park at Dillon Beach.

• Reporter Janis Mara, second place, for education coverage, a feature on the one-room Lincoln School in rural Marin.

• Photo chief Robert Tong, second place, for news photo, of Novato firefighters attacking a fire.

In addition, "honorable mention" awards went to reporter Richard Halstead, for stories about recycling and health care; lifestyles editor Vicki Larson for lifestyle sections; reporter Mark Prado for coverage of unrest in the Sausalito Marin City School District; photo chief Tong for an online photo story/essay about the Novato murder investigation; and Audria Ruscitti, a page designer, for the design of a lifestyles page.

In 2020, the annual California News Publishers Association contest awarded 11 awards to The Independent Journal with a second-place award for general excellence.

Of these awards, The Independent Journal won second place in the breaking news category for a report of a disastrous mudslide in Sausalito in 2019. It won a third-place award for an editorial by Brad Breithaupt and a news photo by Alan Dep. Dep was also awarded a fourth-place award for feature photography alongside George Russel for editorial illustration.