The San Francisco Public Press is delighted to welcome San Francisco journalist Cami Dominguez as a California Local News Fellow.
Category: From the Newsroom
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, From the Newsroom, Government & Politics, Media
Audience Trust Essential Amid Attacks on Media, DEI and Democracy, PBS Public Editor Says
The San Francisco Public Press on April 30, 2025, hosted a fireside chat with Ricardo Sandoval-Palos, the public editor at PBS, and Lila LaHood, executive director of the Public Press, about recent attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion, and threats to democracy and the media.
Sandoval-Palos and LaHood talked about what might happen if the federal government were to cut funding to PBS and NPR, which receive a portion of their budgets from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
The next day, President Donald Trump signed an executive order attempting to do just that.
Posted inEnvironment, From the Newsroom, Health, Media
Public Press Wins 2025 Izzy Award for Series Investigating Human Radiation Experimentation
The San Francisco Public Press is proud to announce that our investigative series, “Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point,” has been honored with a 2025 Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media.
The Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College presents this prominent national award annually to spotlight exceptional work in journalism. Named for trailblazing investigative journalist I.F. Stone, who in 1953 launched a fiercely independent newsletter that exposed government deception, racism and McCarthyism, the Izzy Award honors muckraking produced outside traditional corporate media structures.
Posted inEconomy & Business, From the Newsroom, Media
Film Screening: ‘Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink’
Join the San Francisco Public Press at the Roxie on March 13, for a special fundraising screening of “Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink,” a documentary by two-time Academy Award-nominee Rick Goldsmith. Hedge fund Alden Global Capital is quietly gobbling up newspapers across the country and gutting them, but no one knows why — until journalist Julie Reynolds begins to investigate. Her findings trigger rebellions across the country by journalists working at Alden-owned newspapers. Backed by the NewsGuild union, the newsmen and women go toe-to-toe with their “vulture capitalist” owners in a battle to save and rebuild local journalism in America.
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‘Exposed’ Project Press Release
*** Media Alert *** “Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point” documents years of unnecessary exposure of more than 1,000 veterans and civilians at a San Francisco Navy science laboratory Contact: Michael Stoll, senior editor and co-founder, San Francisco Public Press, (415) 846-3983 or mstoll@sfpublicpress.org. SAN FRANCISCO (Nov. 25, 2024) — The San Francisco Public […]
Posted inFrom the Newsroom, Government & Politics, Open Government
Join Us to Learn How Government Secrecy Can Hurt You
Local governments are secretly making deals with corporations that can threaten public health and safety, and even democracy.
To learn more, join us at our July 11 event on this topic: “What You Don’t Know About Local Government Can Hurt You.”
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Report for America Journalist to Join Newsroom
Report for America has selected the San Francisco Public Press to host a reporter for a two years as part of its national service program that places talented emerging journalists in local newsrooms to report on under-covered topics and communities.
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Report for America Selects San Francisco Public Press as Host Newsroom
Report for America has selected the San Francisco Public Press to host a reporter for a two years as part of its national service program that places talented emerging journalists in local newsrooms to report on under-covered topics and communities.
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A New Chapter for the San Francisco Public Press
As I transition away from my role as executive director at the San Francisco Public Press, I am filled with gratitude to the community of collaborators who helped build it and optimism for the future of local journalism.
For 15 years, we’ve worked to establish an investigative workshop for the city and region grounded in idealism, resilience and innovation. Now, I’m shifting my focus to environmental and science writing, putting the organization’s direction in the capable hands of co-founder Lila LaHood.
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New Leadership for Nonprofit Newsroom Dedicated to Local Investigative Reporting
Lila LaHood has been appointed as executive director of the San Francisco Public Press, after co-founding the organization 15 years ago and serving as its publisher. Michael Stoll, who held the position since the nonprofit newsroom launched, is stepping down March 1, and will shift his focus to reporting.