Well-known Bay Area journalist Gail Berkley-Armstrong has died, her former employer confirmed. Berkley-Armstrong, the daughter of late Oakland attorney and Oakland Post founder Thomas L. Berkley, was 74. She died Sunday after a lengthy illness.

Berkley was the editor of the Sun-Reporter newspaper in San Francisco for 16 years following 32 years as her father’s assistant at the Oakland Post. After her father died, the paper was sold in 2004 to Paul Cobb.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.