Hana Baba is a longtime, award-winning radio journalist in the Bay Area. She is currently the host of “Crosscurrents,” a daily radio show on KALW Radio. In addition to her role at KALW, Hana is the co-host of another show, a podcast called The Stoop, where she and Leila Day discuss stories from across the Black diaspora.
I met Hana back in 2017 when I interned with KALW during the summer. Hana later met with our student newspaper when I was editor-in-chief of the San Francisco Foghorn. I was struck by how she approached community journalism, representation in newsrooms, and how the coverage of a community can affect the larger narrative about that group. In this episode, we discuss those themes, as well as the vexing problem of diversifying journalism talent while local/regional news outlets suffer financially.
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Hana’s shoutout was El Tecolote, a fantastic bilingual, biweekly newspaper that covers San Francisco’s Mission District. To read El Tecolote, click here. To donate, click here.
