Izzy Bloom

KQED Reporter & Producer

Izzy is a reporter and producer on KQED's California Politics & Government Desk. She joined the desk in 2024 to produce Political Breakdown, covering local and national elections and attending the RNC and DNC in Milwaukee and Chicago. Before that, Izzy was a producer on The California Report and reported long-form stories for The California Report Magazine. She was a finalist for the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition and was awarded for her reporting on indigenous land back by the Society of Professional Journalists. Izzy received her master's in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.

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In Sunol, a School Board Recall Divides the Town

How AI Could Threaten Our Elections

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How a California Tribe Fought for Years to Get Their Ancestral Land Back in Eureka

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When You Don't Learn Your Parent's Language, What Is Lost?

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Pronouns Don't 'Work' the Same in All Languages. Here's How One Multilingual Family Navigates Gender

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'It's Like You're on a Different Planet': In Search of Whales (and Other Creatures) at the Mysterious Farallon Islands

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Meet Three of the Women Behind an Indigenous Land Back Effort to Reclaim an SF Peninsula Farm

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Baked-In Messaging: How a Mother-Daughter Duo in Oakland's Chinatown Express Themselves Through Fortune Cookies