Ezra David Romero
Ezra David Romero is an award-winning radio reporter and producer. His stories have run on Morning Edition, Morning Edition Saturday, Morning Edition Sunday, All Things Considered, Here & Now, The Salt, Latino USA, KQED, KALW, Harvest Public Radio, etc.
Romero worked with Valley Public Radio from 2012-2017. He landed at KVPR after interning with Al Jazeera English during the 2012 presidential election. His series ‘Voices of the Drought’ using the hashtag #droughtvoices has garnered over 1 million impressions on Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram. It's also resulted in two photography exhibits and a touring pop-up gallery traveling across California. Stories affiliated with #droughtvoices have run locally, statewide and on national air. In January he was awarded a Golden Mike Award from the Radio & Television News Association for Southern California for this series. He beat out some of the largest radio stations in the state.
In 2015 he was awarded a first place radio award by the Fresno County Farm Bureau for a piece on the nation’s first agricultural hackathon.
In early 2015, he was awarded two prestigious Golden Mike Awards through the RTNA of Southern California for a piece on budding tech in Central California and a story on Spanish theater. Valley Edition, the show Romero produces, was named for the best Public Affairs Program for 2013 by the RTNDA of Northern California.
He’s a graduate of California State University Fresno, where he studied journalism (digital media) and geography. He has worked for the Fresno Bee covering police, elections, government and higher education. In 2012 he was a Gruner Award finalist for his 13-part Sanger Herald series on obesity in Sanger, Calif.
In his spare time, Romero hikes the Sierra Nevada, takes road trips to the Pacific Coast and frequently visits ice cream shops.
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Home cooks who sell meals made in their own kitchens are technically breaking the law in most states, but in California, a new law may change that. However, counties have to get on board first.
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Paper receipts could become a thing of the past if a new California bill becomes law. Capital Public Radio's Ezra David Romero reports.
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Californians are talking about how to clean up the state's dense forests and make them safer from wildfire. But what does it cost to do this? Cap[ital…
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Californi relies on the snowpack for nearly a third of its water supply. But as Capital Public Radio's Ezra David Romero rfeports, it's predicted to…
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Thanks to a siries of recent storms, the Sierra Nevada has plenty of snow. Capital Public Radio's Ezra David Romero reports on what this means for the…
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Even though large wildfires have become common in California, they are still taking many by surprise. They are often deadly, like the Camp Fire that…
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The entire town of 27,000 people was evacuated ahead of the wildfire in Northern California. The fire is the latest in a string of disastrous blazes to hit the state in the past year.
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A challenge to further cut back emissions was issues last week at California's Global Climate Action Summit. Capital Public Radio's Ezra David Romero has…
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Thousands of activists, researchers, and scientists are gathering in San Francisco this week for the Global Climate Action Summit. Capital Public Radio's…
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Rock climbing in Yosemite National Park is no longer a sport for extreme athletes or long-haired rebels. Indoor climbing gyms have trained a new generation of climbers who clamber up the famous rocks.