Voices of Monterey Bay's Claudia Melendez Talks Local Journalism

Posted by Rachel Goodman | Feb 10, 2024 | All Talk, Local, Politics, Program, Rachel Anne Goodman, Talk of the Bay | 0

Talk of the Bay from KSQD

Voices of Monterey Bay's Claudia Melendez Talks Local Journalism

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Award-winning journalist Claudia Melendez Salinas has been writing in-depth articles about people at the margins who do not traditionally get covered by local or national daily papers. Voices of Monterey Bay is a passion project of local journalists Julie Reynolds, Royal Calkins, Joe Livernois, and Melendez covering in-dept stories impacting Monterey County. She talks about her recent investigative work and the need for local journalism.

About The Author

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.