San Francisco Public Press, a.k.a. SF Public Press, is a non-profit online and print news organization covering the Bay Area. It was founded in 2009.[1] The organization receives funding from The San Francisco Foundation and is fiscally sponsored by Independent Art & Media. The organization's professed goal is to do for print and online news what public media has done for radio and television.
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| Type | Print + Online newspaper |
|---|---|
| Founder(s) | Michael Stoll, Lila LaHood |
| Publisher | Lila LaHood |
| Associate editor | Noah Arroyo |
| Managing editor | Liz Enochs |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Headquarters | 44 Page St., Suite 504 San Francisco, California |
| Website | SFPublicPress.org SFPublicPress.org/KSFP |
The Public Press is unique among local online startups in that it has published print newspaper editions of its content. Tom Goldstein, a professor at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism told the San Francisco Chronicle that the move, "strikes me as audacious," adding that the move set the Press "apart, and there may be great benefit in being set apart."[2]
In Fall, 2010 Public Press won an award from the Society of Professional Journalists for explanatory journalism for a series of pieces published online and in print about plans to develop San Francisco's Treasure Island. The idea for the package was hatched by Jeremy Adam Smith, chief editor of Shareable at the time, who also contributed reporting to the series. The press release from SPJ said: "The exhaustively reported package - which exposed the seemingly pipe-dream quality of the project, the political cronyism behind it and the widespread uprooting that the redevelopment will cause - was done on a shoestring budget with funding from Shareable.net[3][failed verification] and micro-donations via Spot.Us."[4]
In 2021, the Public Press received four 1st place awards from The San Francisco Press Club.[5][6] In 2022, three Public Press reporters won SPJ awards in "Health Reporting" and "Community Journalism" categories.[7][8]
In 2019, the Public Press launched KSFP-LP, a low-power FM station at 102.5 FM.[9]
See also
edit- Institute for Nonprofit News (member)
References
edit- ^ "About Us". San Francisco Public Press.
- ^ Wells, Charlie (June 21, 2010). "Public Press started online, now turns to print". SFGATE.
- ^ "Shareable". Shareable.
- ^ "SF Public Press wins award for explanatory journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists". San Francisco Public Press. October 18, 2010.
- ^ Stoll, Michael (2021-10-16). "Public Press Wins 4 Awards From San Francisco Press Club". San Francisco Public Press. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ "The 2021 winners". San Francisco Press Club. 2021-10-05. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ LaHood, Lila (2022-12-01). "Public Press Reporters Win Excellence in Journalism Awards". San Francisco Public Press. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ "SPJ NorCal Honors 2022 Excellence in Journalism Award Winners « SPJ NorCal". Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ "KSFP 102.5 FM". San Francisco Public Press. Retrieved 2020-03-30.