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.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>.<\/p>\n 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<\/a> by affordable housing developers, Meta’s abandonment of plans<\/a> to fund affordable housing and delays to repairs<\/a> on the Santa Cruz wharf before it collapsed.<\/p>\n “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.”<\/p>\n Talerico will report to Metro Editor Greg Griffin.<\/p>\n “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.”<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n About the San Francisco Chronicle<\/p>\n