From Janelle Bitker, Senior Editor for Food & Wine:
The San Francisco Chronicle has a new Assistant Food & Wine Editor: Caleb Pershan, a reporter and editor who started covering the San Francisco food scene in 2013.
Pershan is best known as the former senior editor for Eater San Francisco, where he consistently broke restaurant news, guided readers on where to eat and shed light on uniquely Bay Area food phenomena, like the club of young techies who vowed to eat at every Michelin-starred restaurant in the city in one year. He went on to work for the main Eater site, covering the impacts of the pandemic on the hospitality industry on a national scale.
More recently, he earned his master’s degree at the Columbia Journalism School and completed a one-year fellowship at the Columbia Journalism Review, publishing nuanced pieces on wide-ranging topics like Project Veritas and New York magazine’s diner at large.
Pershan will report to Janelle Bitker, Senior Editor of Food & Wine, and help oversee the team’s dynamic coverage of all things food and drink.
“I’m thrilled Caleb is bringing his deep sourcing and enthusiasm to The Chronicle,” Bitker said. “He understands food is a vital beat for our readers and has great ideas for taking our coverage to the next level.”
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