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Tyche Hendricks
Project Editor, The California Report
Tyche Hendricks is the editor of Governing California, a project of The California Report, where she’s responsible for on air and on-line coverage of state governance.
Hendricks spent more than a dozen years at newspapers, most of them at the San Francisco Chronicle, where she covered immigration, demographics and immigrant communities. She has also reported on local government, transportation, urban planning, cops and courts and schools. She has worked at the Hearst-owned San Francisco Examiner, the San Jose Mercury News and the Seattle Times.
Hendricks reported extensively on the U.S.-Mexico border and her book, "The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport: Stories from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands," was published by the University of California Press in June 2010. She teaches at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Hendricks started her journalism career in radio, filing stories for Marketplace, Pacifica Network News and The California Report. Her work has won awards from the Society for Professional Journalists, the Best of the West and the National Federation of Community Broadcasters. She was a Knight Digital Media Fellow in 2010.
She holds a BA from Wesleyan University, and an MA in Latin American Studies and an MJ in Journalism, both from UC Berkeley. She speaks fluent Spanish and passable French.
Stories (138 archives)
Foie Gras Fans and Foes Count Down to Ban
A statewide ban on foie gras, the fatty liver delicacy produced by force-feeding ducks and geese, kicks in on July 1. Nearly eight years have passed since the bill that mandated it was signed. But advocates on both sides have turned up their burners ahead of the deadline.
Calif. Nuclear Plant's Future Uncertain
San Onofre, one of California's two nuclear power plants, has been shut down for more than two months after an unusual amount of wear was discovered in some of the tubes that hold radioactive water. Now, there may be an initiative on the November ballot that would make the shutdown permanent at San Onofre and the state's other nuclear plant, Diablo Canyon.
How Determined Docents Kept One Park Off the Closure List
Local volunteers love their park so much, they raised more than $1 million to keep it open.
What is a Park Worth?
The Department of Parks and Recreation released last year a list of 70 parks slated for closure this summer. Nonprofits, donors and other partnerships have removed nine parks from the closure list. We begin a special month-long series called "California State Parks: On the Rocks" with Ruth Coleman, Director of California's state parks system.
U.S. Agriculture Cuts Affect California
Last week, President Barack Obama's proposed budget delivered a package of surprises buried in the fine print. For instance, the plan sent to Congress would eliminate the Agriculture Department's Microbiological Data Program. That may not sound so dramatic, except when you consider what the program does.
