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Lizzie Kane comes to The Sacramento Bee from Chicago, where she worked for both the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times. (Eileen T. Meslar\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n
Eileen T. Meslar<\/p>\n
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Sacramento is rich with farms and ranches that grow more than 160 crops across 1.5 million acres of farmland. Hence, why the region has been called \u201cAmerica\u2019s Farm-to-Fork Capital.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n With that in mind, The Sacramento Bee has created a reporting position dedicated to covering the decisions behind what gets planted and harvested, and how those decisions impact jobs, grocery and restaurant prices, and people\u2019s overall cost of living.<\/p>\n Lizzie Kane joins the 169-year-old newspaper as The Bee\u2019s new farm-to-fork reporter on June 8.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m excited to jump into a new reporting space,\u201d Kane says. \u201cCalifornia is the leader in the country\u2019s food production, and it\u2019s crucial that we tell stories to help consumers understand the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n Kane grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and is a graduate of Davidson College. She previously worked as a housing reporter for both the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times, producing accountability stories on public housing,<\/a> as well as an investigation on what employees said was a toxic environment at a large mortgage company.<\/a><\/p>\n Her work also has been published by Bloomberg, the Indianapolis Star, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Charlotte Observer<\/a>, another McClatchy newsroom. She has won awards from the National Headliner Club, the National Association of Real Estate Editors, the Chicago Journalists Association and the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Bee has long been known as a heavy-hitting local newspaper, and I\u2019m looking forward to working with the team as it continues to produce innovative and thoughtful reporting \u2014 especially at a time when journalism is needed more than ever,\u201d Kane says.<\/p>\n Kane will add another dimension to The Bee\u2019s reporting team. Food and dining reporter Sean Timberlake<\/a> also has developed a penchant for telling stories that consumers, farmers, farmworkers and restaurateurs need to know since joining the news organization late last year.<\/p>\n
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