{"id":357216,"date":"2026-06-12T02:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T02:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/357216\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T02:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T02:40:14","slug":"new-bee-food-and-service-journalist-expands-dining-and-drink-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/357216\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bee food and service journalist expands dining and drink team"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Annie<\/p>\n

Annie Ewbank, Service Journalism and Food Reporter at The Sacramento Bee, on Monday, June 1, 2026.<\/p>\n

HECTOR AMEZCUA<\/p>\n

hamezcua@sacbee.com<\/p>\n

An award-winning food and culture journalist has joined The Sacramento Bee to expand coverage of the capital region\u2019s food and restaurant scene.<\/p>\n

Anne Ewbank became The Bee\u2019s Service Journalism and Food Reporter<\/a> on June 1, tackling stories about restaurant openings and closings and hyperlocal dining options, food guides and industry trends. She has already covered how a local pie icon is campaigning to win \u201cbest pie in America<\/a>,\u201d and the annual Tower Bridge Dinner<\/a>, which highlights Sacramento\u2019s farm-to-fork culture.<\/p>\n

Ewbank also reports on breaking news, fact checks and other stories that help readers in Sacramento, the Central Valley and along the Central Coast navigate daily life, along with providing the latest entertainment, weather and retail coverage. This includes The Bee\u2019s \u201cOn A Budget\u201d series, exploring dining and other experiences people can do for under $25.<\/p>\n

A California native, she has previously reported on food and culture for Atlas Obscura, Popular Science and more. At Atlas Obscura, Ewbank helped launch its food and dining section Gastro Obscura<\/a> and received a 2025 James Beard Media Award<\/a> for \u2018Gastro Obscura\u2019s Feast<\/a>,\u2019 a dining and travel food guide on nine international destinations. She also helped curate its \u201cFavorite Things\u201d newsletter, garnering more than 340,000 email subscribers in less than three years.<\/p>\n

Working alongside food and drink reporter Sean Timberlake<\/a> and farm-to-fork reporter Lizzie Kane<\/a>, Ewbank will maintain a repertoire on what Sacramentans and Northern Californians eat and the economic factors that affect what lands on people\u2019s plates.<\/p>\n

Ewbank holds a master\u2019s degree in arts from Yale University and a bachelor\u2019s degree from Occidental College. She reports to service journalism editor Allison Gibson.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really excited to join the Sacramento Bee as a service journalist,\u201d Ewbank said, \u201cand I\u2019m looking forward to helping readers live their best lives here in Sacramento.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ewbank replaces Camila Pedrosa,<\/a> who is now The Bee\u2019s California Diversions Reporter, a newly created role that showcases where to go and what to do in the Sacramento region and beyond.<\/p>\n

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Kat Tran<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Kat Tran is a local engagement and retention reporter, reporting on information needs of The Sacramento Bee\u2019s readers and subscribers, producing newsletters and organizing community events and outreach programs. Tran was a food and drink reporting intern at The Bee. They graduated from the University of Florida in spring 2025.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Annie Ewbank, Service Journalism and Food Reporter at The Sacramento Bee, on Monday, June 1, 2026. HECTOR AMEZCUA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-357216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}