Business reporter
Ethan Baron
Ethan Baron is a business reporter for the Bay Area News Group and a native of Silicon Valley before it was Silicon Valley. Baron has worked as a reporter, columnist, editor and photographer in newspapers and magazines for 25 years, covering business, politics, social issues, crime, the environment, outdoor sports, war and humanitarian crises. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley with a BA in humanities and MA in journalism.
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Language: Spanish (Some)
Award: California News Publishers Association awards for business and wildfire coverage
Expertise: Technology industry, Bay Area economy, California and federal courts, wildfires
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Protests erupt in San Francisco at APEC trade summit for world leaders
Protesters marched, waved signs and flags and occasionally scuffled in San Francisco where President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping were attending an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit of world...
Thousands rally and march in San Francisco in protest against APEC and corporate power
Bay Area companies engage in substantial trade with APEC members: The San Jose metropolitan area exported $15 billion in goods to APEC countries last year, and the San Francisco metropolitan...
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APEC trade summit, protests put Bay Area in spotlight, snarl traffic
Leaders from member countries, including President Joe Biden, are set to attend, along with about 1,200 CEOs and close to 30,000 delegates from governments and organizations.
Bay Area doctor claims no evidence of harm from allegedly racist experiments on inmates
Experiments also allegedly included putting caged mosquitoes against inmates' skin.
APEC conference to bring Biden and Xi, along with closed roads, traffic
Bay Bridge lanes to close, movement to be restricted, with checkpoints in San Francisco for high-level conference.
Bay Area carpenter gets nail shot through tongue into head, sues nail gun maker
Timothy Kahae needed multiple surgical repairs after his nail gun allegedly misfired.
Daly City grandmother escapes Gaza, lawsuit against U.S. officials dropped
U.S. citizen Nawal Alghalayini, 81, traveled in August to visit her childhood home in Gaza with her son, her lawyer said.
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Judge to San Jose church: Turkey bags of weed, piles of stashed cash not ‘sacrament’
Church's lawyer wrongly argued that it should be exempt from pot laws, judge says.
‘It can happen anywhere’: Author explains why no one is safe from wildfires in the 21st century
California's explosive cataclysms, says author of National Book Award-nominated Fire Weather, are showing the future to the world.
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Bay Area woman trapped in Gaza sues U.S. officials over failure to evacuate U.S. citizens
Bay Area relative says family is disappointed that the U.S. government "has left one of our own family members stranded in Gaza" despite her U.S. citizenship.