Farida Jhabvala Romero
KQED ContributorFarida Jhabvala Romero reports on immigration for KQED News. She was part of a team of journalists who won a national Edward M. Murrow award in 2020 for their work on “Graying California” about seniors as the fastest growing age group in the state. Farida also won a 2018 Outstanding Emerging Journalist award from the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California. Before joining KQED, Farida worked at Radio Bilingüe, a national public radio network. Farida earned her master’s degree in journalism from Stanford.
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The state rarely penalized employers for breaking the rules under Douglas Parker, who now leads the federal agency charged with ensuring worker safety, according to an investigation by KQED and The California Newsroom. -
Western wildfires pose a much broader threat to human health than to just those forced to evacuate the path of the blazes. Smoke from these fires, which have burned millions of acres in California alone, is choking vast swaths of the country, an analysis of federal satellite imagery by NPR’s California Newsroom and Stanford University’s Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab found. -
The coronavirus and record-setting Western wildfires converged to exacerbate the pandemic’s health toll last year, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances.