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 the efforts of young scientists at Stanford and the University of California-Berkeley to do an end-run around traditional sources of government grants by seeking funds directly from the public to support research with environmental and socially beneficial applications.

The piece was edited by staff in both newsrooms and photographed by New York Times staff. The Times Bay Area Report, which was launched in 2009 is edited by longtime Times business and environment writer Felicity Barringer.

The Public Press is the second local nonprofit to provide articles to Times local editions outside New York, after the Chicago News Cooperative began producing whole pages for a local section there last year. The Times Bay Area Report, which runs as a two-page spread in the Northern California edition of the Times each Friday and Sunday, is slated to be produced by another nonprofit organization, The Bay Citizen, later this year. 

* * * Meet Public Press reporter Victoria Schlesinger and learn more about her story this Saturday at our “Print-raising” Party at Tonic! Click here for details. * * * 

 

Lila LaHood is executive director of the San Francisco Public Press. She has worked as a nonprofit consultant, and as a freelance writer and editor. She was previously a business writer at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where she covered retail and real estate. Lila has an M.S. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. in international relations from Stanford University. She is a current member and past-president of the board of directors of the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.