Cassandra Garibay

Cassandra Garibay is the engagement editor for California Fellows and Impact Fund grantees of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism. She was raised in the Central San Joaquin Valley, where she reported for the community about housing and homelessness at the nonprofit news organization, Fresnoland, in partnership with the Fresno Bee. She returned to the Central Valley after completing her journalism degree at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and working for the San Luis Obispo Tribune as a breaking news and health reporter. Cassandra has won two McClatchy President’s Awards for her work on projects funded by the Center for Health Journalism. She has also received several California New Publishers Association awards, the SAGE Publishing Award and the Cal Poly George Ramos Scholarship.

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MaryJo Webster speaks to journalists at the 2023 Data Fellowship.

Data Journalism

There are endless public records, but how do you access them? Two data experts share advice

Data journalists MaryJo Webster of the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Marissa Evans of the Los Angeles Times share their strategies for requesting and reporting with public records.

Jaimi Dowdell delivers the keynote address.

Data Journalism

Reporting Strategies

Pulitzer-winning journalist shares 10 tips for stronger data reporting

Pulitzer-winning journalist Jaimi Dowdell is a data reporter with Reuters. But she doesn't consider herself a data journalist, as she told our 2023 Data Fellows this week.

Terry Parris Jr. speaks at the Center for Health Journalism's 2023 National Fellowship week.

Community Engagement

How the most basic question in news coverage – who? – led to a multi-year project with community at the center

A New York City newsroom engaged local residents, businesses and churches to memorialize people who died of COVID-19.

Blanca Torres (left), Ginny Monk (center) and Kristen Taketa (right).

Journalists share tips on interviewing children about sensitive personal issues

“I just treated it very differently than other reporting.”

Three experts on trauma-informed reporting share tips for building care into their reporting

Reporters often ask people to share extremely vulnerable parts of their lives with a large audience, but how do you do so with respect and empathy to move a conversation forward?

Domestic Violence

Guillermo Hernandez, a renter in Fresno, was told by his doctor that he needs to stay out of the heat because of the medication

These strategies helped me go deeper into communities suffering the most from brutal heat

A series of the health impacts of extreme heat puts the experiences of Fresno residents front and center from the start.

Three reporters share how they overcame data challenges to tell meaningful stories

Reporters Edwin Rios, Justin Murphy and Emily Bader share key takeaways from their data-driven journeys.

How community-centered reporting on hygiene stations for LA’s unhoused led to change

From the beginning, Lexis-Olivier Ray knew that he wanted to foreground the experiences of those most affected.

Housing and Homeslessness

Kids play basketball at Ted C. Wills Center, on 770 N San Pablo Ave, Fresno which is one the four cooling centers in the city of

Children & Families

Healthcare Systems & Policy

Fresno extends hours for cooling and warming centers due to extreme weather changes

Cooling and warming centers in Fresno will be open on more days for longer hours, thanks to new guidelines approved by the Fresno City Council on Thursday.

Ted C Wills Community Center is one of the four cooling centers in Fresno that is activated once temperatures are forecast to re

Community & Public Health

Fresno’s unsheltered suffering in relentless heat. “There’s times you can’t even breathe.”

Transportation and information barriers make cooling centers difficult to access for many people living on the streets or in cars.

Race and Equity

Housing and Homeslessness

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Cassandra Garibay

Articles

There are endless public records, but how do you access them? Two data experts share advice

Pulitzer-winning journalist shares 10 tips for stronger data reporting

How the most basic question in news coverage – who? – led to a multi-year project with community at the center

Journalists share tips on interviewing children about sensitive personal issues

Three experts on trauma-informed reporting share tips for building care into their reporting

These strategies helped me go deeper into communities suffering the most from brutal heat

Three reporters share how they overcame data challenges to tell meaningful stories

How community-centered reporting on hygiene stations for LA’s unhoused led to change

Fresno extends hours for cooling and warming centers due to extreme weather changes

Fresno’s unsheltered suffering in relentless heat. “There’s times you can’t even breathe.”