Hi KCBX people! I’m excited to announce that KCBX will welcome a new full-time reporter to our newsroom, starting on September 9th. Adam will be at our on-air host meeting on September 10th, so please say hi and introduce yourselves. Adam Solorzano is part of the California Local News Fellowship through UC Berkeley, where he received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism. He will be reporting for KCBX for two years, as an employee of the University of California. Adam is a fluent Spanish speaker and will be reporting on communities of color, education, mass incarceration & policing, and agricultural communities, etc. He has skills with video, audio, multimedia, public records requests, and more. Here’s a piece he wrote that gives a good description of his background and reasons for being interested in reporting on mass incarceration & policing: https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2022/08/26/how-i-went-from-prison-to-lighting-a-path-for-others/ One very cool project he worked on with a KQED reporter was for the California Reporting Project. They did a piece about people who died after being held face down by California police officers. Adam’s reporting contributed to this story in the Guardian (and on KQED and other CA public radio stations) by Emily Zentner and Lisa Pickoff-White: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/28/california-police-officers-prone-restraint-deaths And here are five video reporting projects he did when he was a student at Cal: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL5ap2bHxXepUhd_qRhosZw We truly look forward to welcoming Adam into the KCBX family and putting his skills to work in the newsroom to serve our community. Hooray! Marisa __ Marisa Waddell (she/her) Director of Programming and Content KCBX Central Coast Public Radio (805) 549-8855 mwaddell@kcbx.org http://www.kcbx.org

Welcome Adam, What an excellent addition to KCBX and the community! I look forward to meeting you and your continued work. On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 9:05 PM Marisa Waddell via Onair < onair@list.kcbx.net> wrote: > Hi KCBX people! > > > > I’m excited to announce that KCBX will welcome a new full-time reporter to > our newsroom, starting on September 9th. Adam will be at our on-air host > meeting on September 10th, so please say hi and introduce yourselves. > > > > Adam Solorzano is part of the California Local News Fellowship through UC > Berkeley, where he received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in > journalism. He will be reporting for KCBX for two years, as an employee of > the University of California. > > > > Adam is a fluent Spanish speaker and will be reporting on communities of > color, education, mass incarceration & policing, and agricultural > communities, etc. He has skills with video, audio, multimedia, public > records requests, and more. > > > > Here’s a piece he wrote that gives a good description of his background > and reasons for being interested in reporting on mass incarceration & > policing: > > > > > https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2022/08/26/how-i-went-from-prison-to-lighting-a-path-for-others/ > > > > One very cool project he worked on with a KQED reporter was for the > California Reporting Project. They did a piece about people who died after > being held face down by California police officers. Adam’s reporting > contributed to this story in the Guardian (and on KQED and other CA public > radio stations) by Emily Zentner and Lisa Pickoff-White: > > > > > https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/28/california-police-officers-prone-restraint-deaths > > > > And here are five video reporting projects he did when he was a student at > Cal: > > > > https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL5ap2bHxXepUhd_qRhosZw > > > > We truly look forward to welcoming Adam into the KCBX family and putting > his skills to work in the newsroom to serve our community. > > > > Hooray! > > > > Marisa > > > > __ > > Marisa Waddell (she/her) > > Director of Programming and Content > > KCBX Central Coast Public Radio > > (805) 549-8855 > > mwaddell@kcbx.org > > http://www.kcbx.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Onair mailing list -- onair@list.kcbx.net > To unsubscribe send an email to onair-leave@list.kcbx.net > -- With Warm Regards, Kris Kris Kington-Barker kriskingtonbarker@gmail.com Office (805) 226-5640 Cell (805) 471-1233