Wallace Baine Exit Interview

Posted by Rachel Goodman | Jan 2, 2026 | All Talk, Arts & Culture, Local, Program, Rachel Anne Goodman, Talk of the Bay | 0

Talk of the Bay from KSQD

Wallace Baine Exit Interview

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Long-time arts and culture journalist for Santa Cruz, Wallace Baine is retiring from his post at Lookout, the online news site, but not before they won the Pulitzer Prize for local journalism. We look back at some of his most exciting interviews with the likes of Randy Newman and Carol Burnett, plus his take on the changes he’s seen over his thirty year tenure covering the cultural life of our community.

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Rachel Goodman

Rachel is host of Talk of the Bay and Board Chair of KSQD. She is the producer of radio documentaries such as Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country and Old Time Music, The Boomtown Chronicles, and Pastures of Plenty, a History of California Farmworkers. She teaches journalism at Cabrillo College in Aptos. She is a recipient of a Peabody award for excellence in journalism.