The San Francisco Chronicle is pleased to announce that Kate Talerico has joined the newsroom as a reporter covering Oakland, Berkeley and the inner East Bay.
She joins an expanded East Bay team that includes Sarah Ravani, formerly the Chronicle’s Oakland/Berkeley reporter, now covering the quickly growing Tri-Valley area.
Talerico comes to the Chronicle from the Bay Area News Group, where she covered housing. She distinguished herself with exclusive enterprise reporting on a loophole exploited by affordable housing developers, Meta’s abandonment of plans to fund affordable housing and delays to repairs on the Santa Cruz wharf before it collapsed.
“I’ve long admired the Chronicle’s journalism, and it feels surreal to be joining the staff myself,” Talerico said. “It’s a privilege to cover Oakland, the city I’ve come to call home.”
Talerico will report to Metro Editor Greg Griffin.
“We’re excited to add Kate, who brought a strong element of accountability to her coverage of housing, to our East Bay team,” Griffin said. “She brings deep experience and a high level of skill to our coverage of this important part of the Bay Area.”
Talerico previously worked at the Idaho Statesman. She was an urban studies major at Brown University, where she was managing editor of the student paper.
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