[6] After the near shutdown of the Oakland Tribune in 1991[7] and observing changes in the media landscape in the early years of the Internet, De Wolk moved into television and online journalism.
[8] De Wolk moved to television journalism and worked at KTVU from 1991 when he took legal action against the station after it fired three other producers, when a list of fake and racially offensive names, supposedly of pilots on board a crashed Asiana flight, was read on the air.
[13][14] Working with Professor Emeritus Leonard Sellers, De Wolk assisted in founding SFSU's Online Journalism Program, which started NewsPort.org.
"[19] He was an investigative journalist in a collaborative, multimedia storytelling project, called "The Price of Prosperity", which was produced in partnership between KTVU, the San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate.com and Bayinsider.com.
[20][21] De Wolk won a James Madison Award in 2008 for digging into public records about the Metropolitan Transportation Commission's loss of income from drivers who obstruct the collection of fees for using its FasTrak system on bridges.
The Executive Producer issued a statement to the EFF stating that after reviewing the raw tapes of the interview the station "unequivocally stands by its story.
"[26] De Wolk is a graduate of UC Berkeley,[28] and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Politico senior reporter Carla Marinucci, and two sons.