Tune to KALW’s "Crosscurrents Radio" today at 5 p.m. to hear Christopher Cook and KALW News Director Holly Kernan discuss his recent coverage of the trial between the Service Employees International Union and the National Union of Healthcare Workers, a rival union created by former SEIU staffers. They will talk about the meaning, importance and […]
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SF Public Press collaborates with New York Times Bay Area Report
We’re pleased to announce that a story collaboratively produced by SF Public Press and The New York Times appears today in the Times’ Bay Area Report and on the nytimes.com and sfpublicpress.org Web sites. The story — ‘‘Seeking to Help Budding Researchers With a Click of the Mouse’’ — by Public Press reporter Victoria Schlesinger looks at […]
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Start the presses! — SF Public Press is going to print
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 […]
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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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The Onion ponders newspapers
From The Onion: How Will The End Of Print Journalism Affect Old Loons Who Hoard Newspapers?
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SF Public Press wins local journalism award
SF Public Press has won its first journalism award! Together with McSweeney’s, the Public Press has received an award in the “news media” category in the annual James Madison freedom of information contest from the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. The award is for the work the two organizations did to […]
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Berkeley Daily Planet to stop printing
Our hearts go out to the Berkeley community upon news that it is losing another newspaper. The Chronicle reported today that the Berkeley Daily Planet will stop printing because of an unbridgeable gap of "hundreds of thousands" of dollars. The owners, Becky and Mike O’Malley, will continue to publish the paper online, they said, and […]
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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 […]
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An update for the Bay Bridge investigation with McSweeney’s
OUR LATEST FUND APPEAL ON SPOT.US An exciting thing about pushing boundaries in journalism is looking back at space you’ve carved out along the way. If you’ve followed the Bay Bridge project since its announcement two weeks ago you will notice a slight repositioning, not of the editorial (which will be the subject of our […]
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Public Press and McSweeney’s seeking public’s support on Bay Bridge investigative report
UPDATE 10/22/09: Read Bay Bridge project reporter Patricia Decker’s blog post on what it means to go deep on a big story: "Keeping bias at bay in investigative journalism." UDPATE 10/27/09: With matching funds, we’re already halfway to our goal for paying reporters and expenses: "An update for the Bay Bridge investigation with McSweeney’s" The […]