(Editor's Note: As we end 2011 and move into a New Year, the Oakland Local staff and featured contributors would like to share some of our favorite stories, experiences and thoughts over the last 12 months.)

Although the principal operations of the Oakland Tribune will remain in Walnut Creek and San Jose, the Bay Area News Group announced today that a new "open newsroom" in downtown Oakland will provide space for community meetings, blogger desks, and free public Wi-Fi. 

Does Oakland still have a viable print paper of record with a local reporting staff - or is the Trib moving into the next stage of collapse?

Oakland Local is looking for Oakland students who are computer literate, love to write and have deep ties to one or more Oakland communities to work as interns this Spring.