Joe Fassler
Deputy Editor
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Joe Fassler is The Counter's deputy editor. His reporting has been included in The Best American Food Writing and twice nominated for a James Beard Media Award. A 2019 - 2020 Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder, he's the author of two books: a novel, The Sky Was Ours (forthcoming from Penguin Books), and Light the Dark: Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process.
![Cell-cultured meat company Upside Foods' co-founders Nick Genovese and Uma Valeti, before Genovese's firing](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/lab-grown-meat-upside-foods-nick-genovese-fired.jpg)
![A view looking down on a road dividing a round cultured meat facility on the left and cows graze. Dark blues and red fill the sky. September 2021](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Cultured-Meat-A.1.jpg)
![Rewrites collage of Jessica Ngo in black and white, with binder paper, graph paper, tape, yellow chalk and a green hand planting seeds. July 2021](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Ngo-final.jpg)
![Deborah Madison collage for Rewrites with tape, floral patch, paper, and coffee cup stain. June 2021](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Madison-final.jpg)
![aerial shot of upside foods chicken salad. May 2021](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Upside-Foods-Chicken-Salad-HERO-image-scaled.jpg)
![A stack of Impossible Burgers with cheese and ketchup side by side a package of Impossible Food made from plants. April 2021](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/impossible-advertisement-feature-image_v2.jpg)
![Aerial view over green farmland with vehicle marks. March 03, 2021](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/aerial-view-of-green-farmland-030321.jpg)