The San Francisco Chronicle has hired Lauren Hepler to cover housing and inequality.
She has been at CalMatters covering the California economy. She will start the Chronicle in two weeks.
Hepler has been reporting on gig workers, unemployment, the state budget and inequality for CalMatters. Hepler previously worked at Protocol, covering Silicon Valley through the prism of the people who work there and the people who are most directly affected by what happens there.
Hepler has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Slate, and the BBC, and she reported previously for the Silicon Valley Business Journal.