Parker Yesko

Parker Yesko is a San Francisco-based reporter covering changing cities and criminal justice.

Parker Yesko is a San Francisco-based reporter covering changing cities and criminal justice. Her work has been featured on KALW and KALX, and in Harper’s, The Guardian, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Bay Guardian and SF Weekly. She has a master’s degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Mark Felt Scholar in Investigative Reporting. She once spent a summer traveling the entire length of the Ganges River.


A Tsukiji shopkeeper prepares a basket of live eels for sale.

Sadness prefaces the closing of the world’s biggest fish market, Tokyo’s Tsukiji

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Tokyo’s famous fish market has been slated to close for decades. But now it really has to go to make way for the 2020 Olympics.