Pauline Bartolone

News & Features Editor

Pauline Bartolone is news and features editor for Capital Public Radio. Prevously, she was a radio and print journalist for almost 20 years, most recently covering state health policy from California’s capital. Previously, Pauline wokred for California Healthline, CALmatters and Capital Public Radio, where she covered health care, water and other key policy issues for the last four years. During that time, she also was a frequent contributor to National Public Radio and Kaiser Health News. Pauline has won three regional Edward R. Murrow awards, national recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists, and a first place prize from the Association of Health Care Journalists. Pauline has also freelanced from throughout Latin America, where her coverage of climate change in the Ecuadorian Andes co­-won a 2006 George Polk award in radio. Pauline holds a BA in media and cultural studies from Goddard College and an MJ in new media from the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Journalism.

Articles

Radio profile of Mica Guillen: Getting Food to Farmworkers in Fresno

<p>California's Central Valley grows fruits and vegetables for the whole country, employing farm workers to care for and harvest the produce. But the recession and drought conditions have forced farm workers out of work, and now many of them are in need of food aid.</p>

Getting Produce to Those Who Pick It

<p>A painful irony exists in California’s agricultural heart: farm workers, far too often, don’t have access to the fruits of their own labor.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>I thought about this irony, more than a year ago, when I first read about the massive drought relief food give-aways in the San Joaquin Valley. In recent years, demand at the food bank in Fresno County has increased four-fold. The State of California has spent millions on food aid to the region. And hunger is hitting a new set of people.&nbsp;</p>