OLD Media Moves

SF Chronicle hires Narayan to cover retail and logistics

January 2, 2019

Posted by Chris Roush

Shwanika Narayan

The San Francisco Chronicle has hired Shwanika Narayan to cover retail and logistics.

“Retail is an important topic for us as international trade wars, rising rents and wages and low unemployment, and the continuing surge in e-commerce reshape traditional brick-and-mortar shopping environments,” said business editor Owen Thomas. “San Francisco is a unique testbed for how these trends will play out nationwide.”

Narayan previously worked at the Los Angeles Business Journal, where she covered the manufacturing, retail and trade beats.

She was previously a freelance producer/video journalist at AJ+, Al Jazeera’s digital vertical, where she created news videos on the daily. Prior to that, she freelanced for NBC News, Quartz and Hyphen magazine, primarily writing about Asian American identity.

She got her start in the field via radio, through an apprenticeship program at KPFA 94.1FM in Berkeley, California.

Fiji-born and American-bred, she has a B.S. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles and a M.S. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

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