Arts & Entertainment Veteran Bay Area Journalists Launch Worker-Owned News Outlet Coyote Media Collective A group of seasoned Bay Area journalists has launched Coyote Media Collective, a worker-owned newsroom inspired by alt-weeklies, aiming to revive independent local reporting with deep stories, sharp opinions, and creative multimedia.
SF News Reporter Bryan Carmody Sues SFPD For Return Of His Property; DA Condemns Raid The freelance news videographer at the center of the Jeff Adachi death report scandal is filing a complaint Tuesday in San Francisco Superior Court following a controversial May 10 raid at his home by the SFPD.
SF News Bloomberg Is Launching A 24-Hour News Channel On Twitter This Fall Enjoyed sitting down w/@jack today to announce @Bloomberg's new global 24/7 live news network w/@Twitter https://t.co/zEY9jnUHss #TheNewNews pic.twitter.com/wwkoxNQm5b— Mike Bloomberg (@MikeBloomberg) May 1, 2017
SF News East Bay Times Wins Pulitzer Prize For Ghost Ship Fire Coverage The Pulitzer Prizes for journalism were announced Monday, and our very own East Bay Times won the coveted prize for Breaking News Reporting for their "relentless coverage of the 'Ghost Ship' fire, which
SF News Facebook, Craig Newmark, And Mozilla Funding New Non-Profit To Combat Fake News "In high school US history, I learned that a trustworthy press is the immune system of democracy," says Craigslist founder Craig Newmark. "As a news consumer, like most folks, I want news we
SF News War Photojournalist Beaten By Looting Anarchists During Oakland Trump Protests .@Oaklandish, opened by woman of color 2 celebrate pride of America's most progressive city. Lift her up, don't tear down. #oaklandprotest pic.twitter.com/Ci9tU7vHSq— Libby Schaaf (@LibbySchaaf) November 10, 2016 Kyle Ludowitz,
SF News Vox Media Tech Journalist Was Also Secretly Working For Apple A note published today written by Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of the prominent technology website The Verge, disclosed that Deputy Editor Chris Zeigler, a founding member of The Verge, had secretly been working for
SF News Facebook To Relegate Clickbait Headlines To Special Place In Timeline Hell Thank you for clicking on this meaningful headline and welcome to an article with useful information. There were other options, I would presume, like "you won't believe what this one social network is
SF News [Update] Facebook's 'News Curators' Choose Trending Topics, Suppress Conservative News, Say Former Employees Gizmodo's been blowing the door open on Facebook's increasingly influential Trending news area, in which topics popular at any given moment on the network are shown, typically the top three of them anyway,
Arts & Entertainment Local Tech Journalists Mystified To Receive Anonymous Book Satirizing Tech A cohort of around 12 San Francisco journalists, most of them known for reporting on tech, have received a mysterious book of tech satire full of "tweets" reimagined in elaborate, handwriting-like typeset. The
SF News The SF Bay Guardian Reaches Fundraising Goal, Will Publish Final Issue When the San Francisco Bay Guardian announced its closure after 48 years this October, much was unclear besides the suddenness of it all, and the tragedy of this loss to local media. The
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Casual Batkid Coverage This ABC reporter casually covers Friday's Batkid melee from the ground.
Arts & Entertainment Local Journalist Covering BART Strike Receives Hirsute Fame Chris Roberts, journalist for SF Examiner and SF Weekly, covered last night's BART strike with aplomb and zeal last night. Look no further than his Twitter feed for proof. Also, after a background
SF News Sean Parker Writes Mammoth Screed On Big Sur Wedding, Online Media Sean Parker brims thoughts and emotions, all of which he poured into an 9,000+ word article published today on TechCrunch. The article, "Weddings Used to Be Sacred and Other Lessons About Online
SF News We're Not The Only Ones Who Notice That The 'Chronicle' Has Problems We pointed you to this piece from the Columbia Journalism Review in a link dump the other day, but in case you missed it, it's worth a read. Former SF Weekly editor John
SF News Video: Homeless Berkeley Hippies Attack Stanley Roberts A pair of dreadlock-sporting vagrants in Berkeley attacked noted KRON 4 reporter (and SFist favorite) Stanley Roberts this week while he was doing a segment outside Amoeba Music on Telegraph Avenue. The journalist,
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Chronicle Ducks Behind Paywall, Confounds Readers Notice anything different about SFGate.com today? Probably not, but the paper of record has moved some random amount of special content behind a for-subscribers-only paywall site at SFChronicle.com. Articles on SFGate.
SF News Reuters Suspends Reporter Accused Of Conspiracy, Hacking L.A. Times Matthew Keys, the Thomson Reuters employee accused of conspiring with members of the Anonymous hacker collective, has been suspended by the noted media company. Reuters reporters Joseph Menn and Dan Levine filed their
SF News Reuters Reporter Accused Of Conspiring With Anonymous, Hacking L.A. Times Matthew Keys, a deputy social media editor with Thomson Reuters, allegedly handed out login information for his former employer the Tribune Company, owner of the Chicago Tribune, the LA Times and other news
SF News Call For Journalists: Gothamist Is Looking for More Long-Form Features Gothamist is interested in adding more long-form non-fiction features to our websites. Last month, we premiered the results of our first call for features, "Confessions of a 'Rape Cop' Juror", on our New
SF News Call For Journalists: Gothamist Is Looking for More Long-Form Features Gothamist is interested in adding more long-form non-fiction features to our websites. Last month, we premiered the results of our first call for features, "Confessions of a 'Rape Cop' Juror", on our New
Arts & Entertainment Graph Shows How Journalists See Each Other Now for some insider-baseball humor. David Chon, founder of Spot.Us, devised this spot.on (haHA) graphic showing how journalists view each other. Having penned many an article in our boxer briefs, as
SF News Bay Area Empty-Handed After 2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced today. And guess what? No one from the Bay Area won. Even though local pubs (new and old) entered a bunch of samples -- it's super pricy
SF News FOX News Team Attacked Outside Sacramento IHOP (VIDEO) 24-hour restaurants really do bring out the worst in people, don't they? Take, for example, a FOX40 news crew who were attacked outside a Sacramento iHOP on the 2900 block of Advantage Lane,
SF News KUSF, the New Ike's Place? Hot on the heels of Benjamin Wachs and Joe Eskenazi's excellent article on silly ordinances at City Hall, SF Weekly roundaboutly reports that Supevisor Ross Mirkarimi plans on introducing a resolution supporting KUSF,
