SF Public Press

{{Short description|San Francisco Bay Area non-profit news organization}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2024}}

{{Infobox Newspaper

|name = San Francisco Public Press

|image = San_Francisco_Public_Press_title_logo.gif

|type = Print + Online newspaper

|foundation = 2009

|founders = Michael Stoll, Lila LaHood

|publisher = Lila LaHood

|maneditor = Liz Enochs

|assoceditor = Noah Arroyo

|headquarters = 44 Page St., Suite 504
San Francisco, California

|website = [http://sfpublicpress.org/ SFPublicPress.org]
[https://sfpublicpress.org/ksfp SFPublicPress.org/KSFP]

|

}}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfpublicpress.org/about/|title=About Us|website=San Francisco Public Press}} 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.

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."{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Public-Press-started-online-now-turns-to-print-3184366.php|title=Public Press started online, now turns to print|first=Charlie|last=Wells|date=June 21, 2010|website=SFGATE}}

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{{Cite web|url=https://www.shareable.net/|title=Shareable|website=Shareable}}{{failed verification|date=September 2023}} and micro-donations via Spot.Us."{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfpublicpress.org/sf-public-press-wins-award-for-explanatory-journalism-from-the-society-of-professional-journalists/|title=SF Public Press wins award for explanatory journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists|date=October 18, 2010|website=San Francisco Public Press}}

In 2021, the Public Press received four 1st place awards from The San Francisco Press Club.{{Cite web |last=Stoll |first=Michael |date=October 16, 2021 |title=Public Press Wins 4 Awards From San Francisco Press Club |url=https://www.sfpublicpress.org/journalism-award/ |access-date=February 20, 2023 |website=San Francisco Public Press |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=October 5, 2021 |title=The 2021 winners |url=https://sfpressclub.org/2021/10/05/the-2021-winners/ |access-date=February 20, 2023 |website=San Francisco Press Club |language=en-US}} In 2022, three Public Press reporters won SPJ awards in "Health Reporting" and "Community Journalism" categories.{{Cite web |last=LaHood |first=Lila |date=December 1, 2022 |title=Public Press Reporters Win Excellence in Journalism Awards |url=https://www.sfpublicpress.org/public-press-reporters-win-excellence-in-journalism-awards/ |access-date=February 20, 2023 |website=San Francisco Public Press |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=SPJ NorCal Honors 2022 Excellence in Journalism Award Winners « SPJ NorCal |url=https://spjnorcal.org/2022/11/21/spj-norcal-honors-2022-excellence-in-journalism-award-winners/ |access-date=February 20, 2023 |language=en-US}}

{{anchor|KSFP-LP}}In 2019, the Public Press launched KSFP-LP, a low-power FM station at 102.5 FM.{{Cite web| title = KSFP 102.5 FM |website= San Francisco Public Press| accessdate = March 30, 2020| url = https://sfpublicpress.org/ksfp}}