This is a repost of a blog item for Reporting on Health, the website of the USC Annenberg School for Communications & Journalism California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships, which supported the Public Press’ Healthy San Francisco reporting project this winter. In 2007, San Francisco embarked on a rare and bold experiment, resolving to provide universal […]
Author Archives: Michael Stoll
Michael Stoll is senior editor and co-founder of the San Francisco Public Press. Formerly executive director, he has also been a reporter and freelance writer for local and national outlets, including the San Francisco Examiner and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He has taught journalism at two Bay Area universities, and researched media ethics. He was selected as the 2026 medial fellow with the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford.
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In the Public Press, elites don’t dictate coverage
If you missed it, the Winter 2011 edition of the Public Press (Issue 5) went on sale in November, and it came on the heels of a national conversation about how to fund and fortify community journalism. This is the editorial on page 2.
Issue 5 of the San Francisco Public Press, an ad-free nonprofit local newspaper, takes cues from noncommercial magazines, some of which have become influential of late. One model was Adbusters, the “culturejammer” magazine that inspired the global Occupy movement. Our approach at the Public Press has always been to look for stories that see the city and the Bay Area from the viewpoint of average people instead of just the elites, whose concerns are well represented. While we don’t practice advocacy journalism, we do strive to cover, in depth, stories and communities that commercially funded media don’t often pay attention to.
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Donate to Illuminate Local Public Media
We’ve had a great response to our fundraising drive so far, but we still need your help to reach our $6,000 goal. Our board of directors will match donations up to $3,000 til the end of the year. One more week! Please support independent public media in San Francisco by becoming a member today. Our […]
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High tuition, low compassion? Berkeley researchers point to upside of economic diversity
Michael Stoll, SF Public Press — Dec 21 2011 – 11:17am As perennial tuition increases threaten to shut out students of low-income backgrounds from the University of California, could the school be on the road to making its student body less caring? That’s just one implication from new psychology research on compassion and economic class from […]
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Who really pays for San Francisco to cover the uninsured?
UPDATE: Thank you to all the supporters who donated to see these stories published! The report was published in the Winter 2011 edition of the Public Press. Read more: https://www.sfpublicpress.org/news/healthy-sf __________________ Could San Francisco have figured out a model for providing universal health care on a tight budget? The California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships at USC Annenberg is helping […]
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Once Magazine, an iPad photojournalism app, launches in San Francisco
There are promising media startups all over the Bay Area, and one experiment in high-quality photography is based in San Francisco and launches today. It’s an iPad app called Once Magazine, and it’s founded by our very own Jackson Solway, who designed the first print edition of the Public Press last year and also directed […]
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SF Public Press partners with KQED Public Broadcasting on Networked Journalism project
KQED Public Media is partnering with the San Francisco Public Press and three other Bay Area nonprofit news organizations to share news stories on the radio and online. The project, called “Networked Journalism,” is an initiative incubated by J Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism, which is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight […]
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SF Public Press Fall 2011 edition focuses on city budget — launch event Aug. 13
CONTACT: Michael Stoll, Executive Director Lila LaHood, Director of Operations and Development (415) 495-7377 — news [AT] sfpublicpress.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The San Francisco Public Press publishes its fall 2011 print edition — the fourth since launching last summer — on Wednesday, Aug. 10, with a special section on the prospect of better […]
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Public Press coverage of Bay Area media meltdown featured on national #wjchat
This week’s #wjchat, a weekly chat for Web journalists on Twitter, was on a topic that is significant to journalists and nonjournalists alike: the future of journalism jobs. The chat was founded by Robert Hernandez, assistant professor of professional practice at the University of Southern California, Annenberg’s School for Communication and Journalism, and Kim Bui, […]
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SF Public Press joins Reuters national nonprofit news distribution deal
The San Francisco Public Press will start distributing selected news stories through the Thompson Reuters newswire in a deal brokered by the Investigative News Network, the two organizations announced earlier this week. Articles will be distributed internationally and available to all of Reuters’ customers — news organizations that distribute in print, online and in broadcast […]