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Cassandra Garibay
California Engagement Editor
Cassandra Garibay is the engagement editor for California Fellows and Impact Fund grantees of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism. She was raised in the Central San Joaquin Valley, where she reported for the community about housing and homelessness at the nonprofit news organization, Fresnoland, in partnership with the Fresno Bee. She returned to the Central Valley after completing her journalism degree at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and working for the San Luis Obispo Tribune as a breaking news and health reporter. Cassandra has won two McClatchy President’s Awards for her work on projects funded by the Center for Health Journalism. She has also received several California New Publishers Association awards, the SAGE Publishing Award and the Cal Poly George Ramos Scholarship.
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A New York City newsroom engaged local residents, businesses and churches to memorialize people who died of COVID-19.
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“I just treated it very differently than other reporting.”
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Reporters often ask people to share extremely vulnerable parts of their lives with a large audience, but how do you do so with respect and empathy to move a conversation forward?
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A series of the health impacts of extreme heat puts the experiences of Fresno residents front and center from the start.
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Reporters Edwin Rios, Justin Murphy and Emily Bader share key takeaways from their data-driven journeys.
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From the beginning, Lexis-Olivier Ray knew that he wanted to foreground the experiences of those most affected.
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Cooling and warming centers in Fresno will be open on more days for longer hours, thanks to new guidelines approved by the Fresno City Council on Thursday.
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Transportation and information barriers make cooling centers difficult to access for many people living on the streets or in cars.
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Blanca Gomez has a swamp cooler, 10 fans and a small air conditioning unit in her trailer home in Cantua Creek, an unincorporated community in Fresno County.
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This series was reported as a project for the 2022 California Fellowship. This summer, with funding from the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, Fresnoland is taking a deeper dive into the toll heat takes on health. ...