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or the Marin Independent
Journal's managing editor and
Marin native Jennifer Upshaw
Swartz, 46, journalism is an
organic, living entity that changes
and evolves as the culture does.
"Keeping a steady hand and a
fi erce watch over accuracy and credibility in
this time of COVID-19 and now all the fi res,
has never been more important," she said in
a telephone interview.
As millions are doing at this time, she
works from her home. Her computer and cell
phone are the key tools in her Lucas Valley
open kitchen/living room. I work from Hawaii.
We spoke to each other in FaceTime, so I
could see the dual lives she is living at this
time: both as the IJ's fi rst woman top editor in
about 15 years and as a passionate baker who
doesn't eat her own goodies but is obsessed
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Marin Independent Journal Managing
Editor Jennifer Upshaw Swartz balances
journalism's intensity with baking
