Sasha Chavkin
sashachavkin.bsky.social
Sasha Chavkin
@sashachavkin.bsky.social
Senior reporter covering the food industry @theexamination.org. Past: RIN Fellow for Pulitzer Center/@apnews.com, Ted Scripps Fellow, reporter @ICIJorg. Believer in democracy, the Constitution and the New York Mets.
Sharing for no reason at all a quote from the great Jewish Museum exhibition on artist and activist Ben Shahn
August 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Here's the story, which we published in January with @thestar.com, @mississippitoday.org & @apnews.com
www.theexamination.org/articles/how...
May 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Filipino officials blocked anything harmful to the tobacco industry at the latest tobacco control convention, throwing talks into gridlock.

How industry capture threatens a key global health treaty, via @maria-perez.bsky.social @mattchapman.bsky.social

www.theexamination.org/articles/how...
May 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Major news: Kevin Hall, a leading NIH researcher who did defining studies on ultraprocessed foods, quits due to signs of censorship and bias from agency leadership

A massive setback for anyone serious about understanding the effects of UPFs on public health
April 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
“We have to convince the consumer that this sugar is good for you”

How an academic distorted science as a paid pitchman for the maple syrup industry

Must-read investigation by my colleagues @willreport.bsky.social @anjalit.bsky.social, together w NY Times
www.theexamination.org/articles/a-s...
April 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This year we will be reading this passage at our Passover Seder.

It is from "A Plea for Free Speech in Boston" by Frederick Douglass, delivered in 1860 after a mob attacked his abolitionist meeting
April 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Wright has embraced both these ideas in public statements.

But for years, he pushed a legal effort to limit workers choices by banning ESG investing from most retirement plans, we reported for @theexamination.org/ @gristnews.bsky.social earlier this month

www.theexamination.org/articles/tru...
March 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM