Category: From the Newsroom

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 […]

Give, drink and talk it up with our City Budget Watchdog team — local journalists who need your support to continue a reporting project on municipal cutbacks, jointly sponsored by The Public Press and Spot.us. You’ll have a chance talk to our journalists about the stories they’ve covered so far and hear about the reporting […]

The Public Press is now officially more than halfway toward raising $5,000 for our City Budget Watchdog beat, an initiative we launched in collaboration with Spot.us, the micro-funding Web site. The total has reached $2,710 — $1,000 of which came from a particularly generous New York donor, Ruth Ann Harnisch. Thanks to all who have […]

When firefighters and advocates for the disabled get into shouting matches over resources, you know there’s a lot at stake. It’s happening in San Francisco, in this summer’s city budget battle. Trouble is, there’s little in-depth, nonpartisan coverage of the issues residents are screaming at each other about. That’s what we hope to change with […]

The future of journalism is in Las Vegas — or at least that’s what Rob Curley, multimedia extraordinaire and tech consultant for The Las Vegas Sun, imbued into a large group of entrepreneurs and media folks at Stanford business school Tuesday night. “What if a newspaper could start over?” he began his presentation by asking. […]

In early April, The Public Press attended the Web 2.0 Expo at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco, and was flooded with interest from technologists and entrepreneurs. Steering committee member Lila LaHood had the chance to speak with a reporter from KRON 4 News.    

  The new CEO of National Public Radio, Vivian Schiller, spoke on video recently with Knight Pulse, a journalism blog from the Knight Foundation. She said she’s encouraged by the proliferation of public-media startups around the country. The "buzz" around the notion that newspapers try to live off endowments is misleading, she argued, because it […]

UPDATE 3/4/09: This story was fully funded in less than 24 hours! Thanks to all the contributors, listed here: http://spot.us/pitches/139 * * * As part of our ongoing collaboration with the journalism microfunding project Spot.us, we’ve put up a "pitch" for a daily story we think needs to get covered … Can you help us […]

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 […]