Vince Outlaw is an award-winning multimedia journalist producing written, spoken and visual content. Based in San Diego since 1980, he works for City Times Media as a journalist, politics and voting beat editor, and sports broadcaster, reporting on and to the San Diego City College community. He also produces structured notes and other media covering local government meetings as part of the nationwide Documenters program, powered locally by inewsource.
He led the CTM newsroom approach to its November 2024 election-related reporting, initiating the City College Community Agenda. The survey sought to build a list of issues the SDCC community wanted to hear candidates talk about, and Vince expanded on that by conducting in-person interviews and developing online survey forms in English and Spanish.
Vince also produced candidate debate and initiative reporting addressing prioritized Community Agenda issues. CTM produced over 40 November 2024 election-related, Community Agenda-focused, written and visual stories on politics and voting reporting, up from a state-leading 25 a month earlier. He was also on-camera for live on-camera election-night interviews and polling updates.
Vince provides game preview and post-game analysis reporting and live play-by-play and color commentary on the San Diego City College Knights basketball program. With CTM TV broadcast partner Joe Panek, he called 11 games which had over 1,000 views during the 2023-24 season. Work by Outlaw and Panek was widely honored at the local and state levels, receiving first place in College TV and Radio/Podcasting at the San Diego Press Club’s 51st Annual Excellence in Journalism & Scholarship Awards and second place in the Communications Showcase at the 20th Annual San Diego City College Student Research Symposium.
Vince reports on general news stories, including music and cultural events, campus life, and community member profiles. His live coverage, with other CTM team members, on “City College students, faculty among ‘peaceful’ protestors at campus walkout (with video and gallery)” received first place in College Print or Online: News at the San Diego Press Club’s 51st Annual Excellence in Journalism & Scholarship Awards.
He spent over 30 years as a weekly on-air and live-event creator, producer and host of “The New Jazz Thing” and “Jazz Live San Diego,” among other shows for Jazz 88.3 KSDS San Diego. Vince produced and performed over 300 audio and video interviews of local, national, and international jazz artists and newsmakers, as well as on-stage hosting of numerous public events. He is passionate about artists and newsmakers, their processes and art, and talking with them about it.
Vince graduated with a Computer Science degree from Point Loma College in 1984, then spent 30 years in Enterprise Information Technology roles, from Computer Operations to Enterprise Business Architect, then re-tooled as a Digital Marketing Specialist and Social Media Manager. His expertise in business process and information technology has been applied to improving newsroom operations and tools such as editing workflows, WordPress, Slack and Google Workspaces.
He wants to improve civic engagement through reporting on governance, democracy and news literacy while addressing misinformation. Outlaw wants to reach audiences who are getting news and information from new media like social media platforms, shorter-form video content, and podcasts, in addition to more traditional platforms like websites, television and radio.
He met his wonderful wife in San Diego, where they have raised two fantastic children. Some of his other passions, in no particular order, include craft beer, travel, San Diego State Aztec Men’s Basketball, San Diego’s housing crisis (and other growing pains), and finding ways to get from here to there without driving a car!