Chase Hunter

Chase Hunter is the Alameda County reporter for the Bay Area News Group. Hunter grew up in the West Valley of Phoenix and moved to Sonoma County in 2021 where he reported for the Sonoma Index-Tribune and the Santa Rosa Press Democrat on wildfires, crime, city government, agriculture, and the environment. In 2023, Hunter produced a three-part series as a California Health Equity fellow for the Health Center at the Annenberg School of Journalism at the University of Southern California. He is a class of 2021 graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.