Fellows & Editors
Jack Epstein
- Trip:
- Indonesia 2011
- Affiliation:
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Country:
- Indonesia
- Year:
- 2011
Jack Epstein is the foreign editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Previously he headed the newspaper’s foreign service department, overseeing coverage by freelancers and stringers from Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. Before joining the Chronicle, he spent many years in Latin America. He began his journalism career in 1980 freelancing from Central and South America. He had worked for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Brazil and Panama and traveled through the region, producing the 1977 travel guide, Along the Gringo Trail. In 1982 he received a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism to research the links between Central America’s Miskito Indians and the CIA, spending four months in Nicaragua, Honduras and Costa Rica, producing a series of articles for Pacific News Service and the National Catholic Reporter. From 1983 to 1988 he freelanced in the San Francisco area. In 1989 he moved to Mexico City to teach journalism and to freelance. Four years later he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he worked primarily for the Associated Press and TIME magazine. He returned to California in 2000 and joined the Chronicle. He received a B.A. in Latin American Studies from UCLA.
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