Thank you for supporting our Pedal-Powered News campaign on Kickstarter — you have helped us raise more than $18,600! We have one more favor to ask, and it needs to happen today. The San Francisco Public Press has a shot at a great opportunity — can you help? We need 195 people to give $1 […]
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Public Press Receives INNovation Fund Grant from Knight Foundation and Investigative News Network
The San Francisco Public Press was awarded a $35,000 grant through the INNovation Fund, a partnership between the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Investigative News Network, to launch a street mobilization program that will increase community engagement and generate income to support the Public Press in reporting and publishing in-depth, local […]
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Issue No. 13 is here!
Special Report: Public School Inequality Parent fundraising for elementary education in San Francisco public schools has skyrocketed 800 percent in the past 10 years. This largesse has saved classroom programs and teaching positions at schools with strong PTAs. But it has also widened the gap between rich and poor, showing how schools chiefly serving students […]
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Public Press News Editor Rich Pestorich Moves On to SFChronicle.com
Photo: News Editor Rich Pestorich, Executive Director Michael Stoll, Publisher Lila LaHood, and reporters Ambika Kandasamy and Barbara Grady. I’m writing with some bittersweet news. The sweet: Rich Pestorich, who’s been with us as news editor since the fall of 2010 (issue No. 2) has scored himself a prominent full-time job: online producer for SFChronicle.com! […]
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The Fourth Estate and You
Note from the editors, in the summer 2013 print edition of the San Francisco Public Press Welcome to the future. Thanks to the collapse of print advertising and über-consolidation of formerly competing commercial news companies, independent journalism is becoming a threatened, if not endangered species. In the news vacuum this trend has created, journalism entrepreneurship […]
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Don’t Let the Fog Fool You
San Francisco is getting sunnier. Not in the way you might learn about from TV news or features in the daily papers; superficial stories about the warm weather at street festivals are cheap and easy to produce. The sunshine we need is of a kind that’s harder to capture. Journalists at the San Francisco Public […]
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Thanks for making our fall drive a success
Thank you for making the San Francisco Public Press fall membership drive a big success! Tremendous thanks to all of our new and renewing members for helping us surpass our goal. Your support means so much to us. If you weren’t able to join during the fall drive, it’s not too late: Become a […]
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Annual Open Board Meeting
Annual Open Board Meeting Join us this Saturday for our annual open board meeting. Our executive director, publisher and other board members will present reports on current operations and future plans. There will be time for public comment and discussion. We will provide coffee, tea and snacks. When: 10:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Nov. […]
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Fall membership drive — join now!
Did you hear that San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón announced at a press conference that he was investigating his department’s low rate of prosecutions for domestic violence? That was because of reporting in the fall 2012 edition of the Public Press, which found that San Francisco takes just 28 percent of cases to court […]
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IRS Awards 501(c)3 Status to San Francisco Public Press
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 Contact: Michael Stoll, Executive Director — 415-846-3983; Lila LaHood, Publisher — 415-846-5346 IRS Awards 501(c)3 Status to San Francisco Public Press After 32-month wait, independent ad-free newspaper finally receives charitable status, paving way for several similar nonprofit news startups SAN FRANCISCO — After more than two and a half […]