Sydney Fishman
News ProducerSydney Fishman is in the 2022 KALW News Summer Training Program. She is a producer for Crosscurrents.
My name is Sydney Fishman and I am excited to be training with the 2022 KALW News Summer Training Program. I am a recent graduate of the NYU Graduate School of Journalism and have been honing my skills in audio editing and production. I recently relocated to Oakland, where I produce audio and video for KCBS Radio's digital website. I love all things audio including podcasts, music, and radio. During my free time, I love to read, watch television, and take walks by Lake Merritt with my corgi, Coco.
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In the spring of 2017, the City of Oakland began the first cannabis equity program in the nation to address the racial and social inequities caused by the War on Drugs. Six years later, some equity applicants have reported that the program has failed them because of little oversight and a delayed bureaucratic process. -
This year marks the ten-year anniversary of the dating app Tinder. While the early pandemic brought more users to these apps, social isolation shifted what many people want out of dating and dating apps themselves. As pandemic restrictions have lifted, some reports suggest that many single people today are still using virtual dating as their go-to first choice in the search for love. -
In a new proposal called the “cultural conservation easement,” Oakland plans on giving five acres of Joaquin Miller Park, or one percent, to the Sogorea Te’ Tribe, in what is believed to be the first case of a city giving land back to a Native group. -
San Jose City Councilmember Matt Mahan has allegedly employed campaign workers as independent contractors instead of salaried employees, according to San Jose Spotlight. -
More than 2,000 Kaiser mental health employees protested today outside the company’s facilities in San Francisco, Fresno and San Jose to advocate for increased staffing – and to halt long patient wait times. -
The ins and outs of operating a cannabis dispensary can be complicated, especially when that dispensary operates out of a historic Oakland theater. Ivy Hill Cannabis has been taking on the task of turning the Old Parkway into the neighborhood weed supplier. -
The University of California Hastings College of Law’s Board of Directors has voted to change the school’s name due to the history of genocidal acts toward Native Americans by the school’s founder. -
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins fires 15 employees from her office prompting backlashNewly-appointed San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins fired 15 employees from her office Friday. This has prompted backlash from former staffers and concern from current employees that Jenkins’ strategies do not align with her prior promises of reform. -
The National Weather Service issued a warning Sunday that King Tides will bring coastal flooding to low-lying points of the San Francisco shoreline beginning tonight, which will bring flooding to trails and sidewalks. -
PG&E is expanding its automated power shutoff system - a tool to help offset wildfires. The system triggers a local shutoff when computers detect disturbances like trees hitting power lines nearby.
