Dana Cronin
Reporter, Illinois NewsroomI cover food, agriculture and environmental issues for Harvest Public Media. I’m based at Illinois Public Media located in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.
I grew up in the heart of Napa Valley, California — an agricultural region of its own. I studied at Colorado College, where I received a degree in Environmental Science, Journalism and Spanish.
I began my radio reporting career in southern Colorado at member station 91.5 KRCC, where I spent three years writing about everything from agriculture to Colorado’s highest mountain peaks. I then went to work at my hometown station, KQED, in San Francisco. While there, I covered the2017 North Bay Fires. Before landing in Illinois, I also spent two years at NPR’s headquarters in Washington D.C., producing for shows including Weekend Edition and All Things Considered.
If you have story ideas for me or just want to say hi, feel free to reach out via email dcronin@illinois.edu or follow me on Twitter @DanaHCronin.
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A new anti-racist toolkit from the Farmers Market Coalition is designed to help managers of farmers markets think about messaging, vendor support and product availability. -
Just as consumers turned to online shopping during the pandemic, many farmers started selling their products online over the past two years. -
Midwestern lakes have become a hotbed of toxic algae blooms, largely caused by agricultural runoff. Without regular testing, visitors to lakes in many states have no idea what they're getting into. -
The Renewable Fuel Standard, which requires blending some renewable fuel into gasoline, may be contributing more to climate change than it’s helping. -
Air pollution has traditionally been measured by the size of particles, which tend to be larger in urban areas than in rural ones. But a new study from the University of Illinois suggests that the toxicity of air in rural areas is just as bad as in urban ones. -
Food banks find themselves struggling with a shortage of donations amid an increase in prices and demand from families needing help. -
The U.S. is on track to admit more agricultural guest workers than ever before, according to the Department of Labor. Most Midwestern states are on a similar trajectory. -
Large donors can put universities in potentially awkward positions when faculty conclusions conflict with the interests of those benefactors. Data collected by Harvest Public Media and Investigate Midwest show corporations have given at least $170 million to ag colleges in the past decade. -
TIAA-CREF invests heavily in farmland, so it paid a university to research it. -
A wet year threatened pumpkin farms with the threat of fungus, but the Midwestern 2021 gourd harvest looks healthy.
