Ailsa Chang is an award-winning journalist who hosts
All Things Considered along with Ari Shapiro, Audie Cornish, and Mary Louise Kelly. She landed in public radio after practicing law for a few years.
Chang is a former
Previously, she was a congressional correspondent with NPR s Washington Desk. She covered battles over healthcare, immigration, gun control, executive branch appointments, and the federal budget.
Chang started out as a radio reporter in 2009, and has since earned a string of national awards for her work. In 2012, she was honored with the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton for her investigation into the New York City Police Department s stop-and-frisk policy and allegations of unlawful marijuana arrests by officers. The series also earned honors from Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Society of Professional Journalists.
Cecilia Lei joins SFChronicle as Fifth & Mission podcast co-host and producer
Bay Area native joins newsroom s expanding audio team on flagship daily news show
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Cecilia Lei joins The San Francisco Chronicle as Fifth & Mission podcast co-host and producer.Courtesy Cecilia Lei
From Director of Product and Strategy Tim O’Rourke and Deputy Director of Product and Strategy Sarah Feldberg:
We’re thrilled to announce that Cecilia Lei has joined The Chronicle as the co-host and producer of Fifth & Mission, our flagship daily local news podcast.
Cecilia comes to our newsroom from Vox, where she produced the daily news podcast “Today, Explained.” She has experience in both audio and online reporting, with her work often focusing on coverage of race, immigration, criminal justice and the Asian American community in the Bay Area. Her stories have appeared on Vox.com, NPR, the East Bay Express and KQED.
Yesterday, after months of speculation, the
LA Times appointed its next executive editor. The paper has given the job to Kevin Merida, the editor in chief of
The Undefeated, an arm of ESPN that reports on the intersection of sports, race, and culture; prior to working there, he spent twenty-two years at the
Washington Post, including as a managing editor, and also worked as a reporter at the
Dallas Morning News and
Milwaukee Journal. Merida, who is Black, will be just the third top editor of color in the history of the
LA Times; his hiring follows a public promise that Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner, made last year to diversify the paper’s ranks. Merida will be tasked with growing the paper’s digital-subscriber base, which currently lags those of bigger rivals, as well as its own goals. “I see nothing but opportunity,” he told Meg James, an
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Editor’s Note: The reporter, Jayce Carral, worked with Angelica Relente for several semesters at The Daily Evergreen.
Angelica Relente remembers walking into a conference in Seattle, Washington, along with 10 other brown students from Waipahu High School in Hawaii. The people and booths all blur together, but she remembers knowing, in that moment, she was meant to be a journalist, even if she did not know why at the time.
Relente’s epiphany was further cemented by her high school journalism teacher Daryn Kakazu, who was a father figure to Relente. She said she believed him when he told her he saw a bright future in her.