Come to a print-raising party at Tonic on Saturday, April 3, and join the leading grassroots campaign to advance local, ad-free, public-interest journalism in San Francisco. All tips collected during the event will help SF Public Press produce, print and distribute a pilot newspaper this spring. We hope you’ll contribute. We’ll offer chances […]
Author Archives: Lila LaHood
Lila LaHood is Executive Director of the San Francisco Public Press. She is a member of San Francisco’s Sunshine Ordinance Task Force and a member of the board of directors of the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. She has worked as a nonprofit consultant and freelance editor. She was previously a business writer at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where she covered retail and real estate. Lila has an M.S. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. in international relations from Stanford University.
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SPJ forum TONIGHT: “Your Views on Local News”
Community members will have a chance to discuss their views about the local news with a dozen leading figures in journalism, education, business and politics at a town hall meeting produced by the Society of Professional Journalists on Thursday, March 25. Participants will talk about how the current crisis in the news industry creates opportunities for […]
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Heralding the Panorama
Lila selling Panoramas like hotcakes in front of the San Francisco Chronicle. Photo by Christopher D. Cook/SF Public Press. I woke up at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday to meet the San Francisco Panorama delivery truck at the McSweeney’s office on Valencia Street. I had recruited half a dozen Public Press volunteers to sell copies of the singular […]
Posted inCity Budget Watchdog, From the Newsroom, News
Thanks for making the City Budget Watchdog project a success!
We did it! Thanks to your help, The Public Press and Spot.Us raised $5,000 to support our City Budget Watchdog series. Over the course of three months, our team produced 18 articles and 13 videos, accompanied by numerous photos and information graphics, and co-produced with KALW (91.7 FM) a budget roundtable that aired Aug. 17 […]
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10th Annual Expo for Independent Arts and new Symposium for Artists
I’d like to promote two great events hosted by Independednt Arts & Media, The Public Press’ fabulous fiscal sponsor. Here’s a note from Clare Morales Roberts, Indy Arts’ executive director: Greetings! I would like to take this opportunity to extend a very special invitation to an event this Friday, Sept. 25 from 12:00 p.m. to […]
Posted inPublic Safety, Transportation
Third streetcar accident in a month snarls Market St.
A streetcar on Market Street struck a woman Tuesday afternoon, marking the third significant Muni accident in less than a month.
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KALW’s Crosscurrents Radio talks to City Budget Watchdog
Holly Kernan, news director at San Francisco’s KALW, interviewed Kevin Stark, one of our City Budget Watchdog reporters, for Crosscurrents on June 22. Here’s a description from www.crosscurrentsradio.org: “The city is trying to find ways to close a nearly half billion dollar deficit, which means cuts. After the board of supervisors reworked Mayor Newsom’s proposed […]
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As SF marks quake anniversary, cuts threaten disaster training
As San Francisco marks the 103rd anniversary of the 1906 earthquake Saturday, the city’s only free, hands-on emergency training program could be stalled by the budget cuts threatening every municipal agency. The Neighborhood Emergency Response Team program — NERT — surpassed its annual goal of training 2,000 volunteers in four of the past five years and aims to increase participation by 25 percent this year. In addition to financial concerns, NERT’s biggest challenges are its dependence on word-of-mouth promotion and the language barriers that isolate people throughout the city. And yet, the program, which is run by the San Francisco Fire Department, is making strides in training volunteers and recruiting team leaders in underserved districts.
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KQED interviews Public Press project director
In the wake of Hearst Corp.’s announcement Tuesday that it will impose extreme budget cuts at the San Francisco Chronicle and possibly sell or shutter the paper, KQED’s Kelly Wilkinson interviewed Public Press Project Director Michael Stoll about developing models for sustainable news organizations. The interview first aired on Feb. 25, 2009. You can listen […]
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Forum focuses on ‘Crisis at the Chronicle’
KQED’s Forum devoted an hour to discussing the possibility that San Francisco could lose its only major daily newspaper. Host Michael Krasny led a conversation with Carl Hall, local representative of the California Media Workers Guild; Louis Freedberg, director of the California Media Collaborative; and Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Pew Research Center’s Project for […]