Tulare County

The Visalia Times Delta

The Visalia Times-Delta, where this reporter is based, is owned by Gannett. The California News Desert Initiative aims to promote content sharing among newsrooms so residents in under-covered communities get the news they need. 

The Visalia Times Delta

The Visalia Times-Delta, where this reporter is based, is owned by Gannett. The California News Desert Initiative aims to promote content sharing among newsrooms so residents in under-covered communities get the news they need. 

Jorge Garcia

Jorge Garcia is a bilingual multimedia journalist for the Visalia Times-Delta in Visalia, California. He hails from Los Angeles, and his passion for storytelling and amplifying the voices of disenfranchised communities are several reasons why he pursued a journalism career. A graduate of California State University, Los Angeles, with a bachelor’s degree in journalism, Garcia has produced video, audio, text, and photojournalism work for various news outlets, including the University Times, Cal State’s student paper, and KQBH radio, and as an intern for EdSource and the Los Angeles Times. He enjoys playing soccer and collecting vintage vinyl records.

The Visalia Times Delta

The Visalia Times-Delta, where this reporter is based, is owned by Gannett. The California News Desert Initiative aims to promote content sharing among newsrooms so residents in under-covered communities get the news they need. 

Joshua Yeager

Joshua Yeager covers the environment, rural issues and local governments for the Visalia Times-Delta newspaper in the heart of the agricultural San Joaquin Valley. He has devoted his three-year career at the paper to exposing inequalities in Tulare County towns suffering contaminated and insufficient drinking water. He won a first-place California News Papers Association award for his coverage of Sierra Nevada’s historic 2020 wildfire season. An avid Sierra hiker, he has recently investigated forest management policy oversights that have resulted in the death of thousands of giant sequoia trees.

Daniel Casarez

Daniel Casarez reports for the Visalia Times-Delta in Visalia, California, where he covers the state's Central Valley south with a focus on Tulare County. A multimedia journalist, Casarez has reported on evictions during the pandemic for Retro Report, a nonprofit news organization that publishes short-form documentaries. For years he reported for Vida en el Valle, a bilingual publication serving California's Central Valley. His fellowship at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism resulted in coverage of the effects of asthma on Latino children living in rural communities, and he was a multimedia contributor to a series on Valley fever, a lung infection. A graduate of Fresno Pacific University, Casarez has earned awards from the California News Publishers Association and the National Association of Hispanic Publications. He grew up in a farm-working family in Calwa, located in Fresno County, part of the Central Valley.

California News Desert & Trust Initiative

The Visalia Times-Delta, where this reporter is based, is owned by Gannett. The California News Desert Initiative aims to promote content sharing among newsrooms so residents in under-covered communities get the news they need.