He serves as executive chair of the board for the Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley, California.

[2] In 1986, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the fall of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

[4] He went on to report from conflict areas around the world as a foreign correspondent for eight years, such as Peru, the Middle East, El Salvador and the Philippines.

When an alligator escaped into a city lake in 1996, Bronstein arrived in scuba gear to assist with the capture, but police turned him away.

[5] Hearst Corporation, the parent company of the Examiner, bought the San Francisco Chronicle in 2000.

[10] Bronstein was editor after the merger, which occurred at the same time as a general decline in the newspaper industry, making the job even more difficult.

[11] Bronstein made staffing changes, created new features, and attempted to bring the Chronicle into the Internet age, all while preserving the Bay Area cultural viewpoint.

[14] They were unable to conceive children as Stone suffered from an autoimmune disease, resulting in three miscarriages.

[2] Bronstein was bitten on his bare foot, as the keeper had told him to take off his white shoes and socks, which the keeper stated could excite the Komodo dragon as they were the same color as the white rats the zoo fed the dragon.

[25] In 1986, Bronstein was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos, long-standing dictator of the Philippines.