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Janelle Salanga

Janelle Salanga is the deputy editor at The Objective. The Central Valley is something that can be so personal to them — by day they help cover it at CapRadio.

Janelle's Latest Articles

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Q&A: Rebuild Local News

By Janelle Salanga ● Q&A ● March 3, 2023

Envisioning ways to fund local newsrooms and support the people who keep them running.

A photo portrait of Pablo Calvi, a journalism professor at Stony Brook University.

Q&A: Pablo Calvi

By Janelle Salanga ● Q&A ● June 10, 2022

Q&A: Kam Burns

By Janelle Salanga ● Q&A ● March 18, 2022

Q&A: Jamal Rayyis

By Janelle Salanga ● Q&A ● March 4, 2022

Q&A: Francisco Vara-Orta

By Janelle Salanga ● Q&A ● January 7, 2022

IRE’s first director of diversity and inclusion talks about sustainable progress and evolving attitudes in journalism.

Q&A: Sisi Wei

By Janelle Salanga ● Q&A ● November 11, 2021

OpenNews co-executive director and founder of the DEI Coalition talks industry-wide change as a collective effort.

Q&A: Stephanie Kuo

By Janelle Salanga ● Q&A ● October 29, 2021

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The Objective is taking a break

By Gabe Schneider, Chelsea Cirruzzo, Curtis Yee, Marlee Baldridge, Janelle Salanga & Holly Rosewood ● The Objective ● July 1, 2021

To critique journalism, we need to model the behavior we want to see. But we’ll be back soon

White supremacy isn’t new, and newsrooms shouldn’t cover it like it is

By Janelle Salanga & Siona Peterous ● Story Frame ● April 7, 2021

Q&A: When will public media be public media for all?

By Janelle Salanga ● Q&A ● December 18, 2020