Sasha Chavkin

Sasha Chavkin, a reporter with The Examination, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the food industry’s stealthy tactic to exploit the power that influencers can have on social media, and how this raises questions for the ethics of professional dietitians.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Sasha Chavkin of The Examination about a new investigation that reveals how major food brands are co-opting the anti-diet movement to sell products.

Sasha Chavkin is a senior reporter with The Examination, a nonprofit newsroom that worked with The Washington Post to investigate whether the food industry is misusing anti-diet messages.

More than a decade ago, a young reporter named Sasha Chavkin filed a story for ProPublica about the sort of bureaucratic indifference that makes people hate their government.