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American DispatchEpisode 13 | Peter-Astrid KanePeter-Astrid Kane is a freelance journalist and communications manager at S.F. Pride. Their work has appeared in the Guardian, 48Hills, the S.F. Bay Times, the S.F. Examiner, SFGate, The Infatuation and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other outlets.
From 2015 to 2019, Peter-Astrid worked for SF Weekly, ultimately becoming its editor.
On Sept. 14, in response to the news that SF Weekly would be shutting down for an “indefinite hiatus,” Peter-Astrid wrote a farewell column for 48Hills about SF Weekly’s legacy and what it was like to be the leader of a newsroom where resour...
2021-09-1836 min
American DispatchEpisode 13 | Peter-Astrid KanePeter-Astrid Kane is a freelance journalist and communications manager at S.F. Pride. Their work has appeared in the Guardian, 48Hills, the S.F. Bay Times, the S.F. Examiner, SFGate, The Infatuation and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other outlets. From 2015 to 2019, Peter-Astrid worked for SF Weekly, ultimately becoming its editor. On Sept. 14, in response to the news that SF Weekly would be shutting down for an “indefinite hiatus,” Peter-Astrid wrote a farewell column for 48Hills about SF Weekly’s legacy and what it was like to be the leader of a newsroom where resources kept d...
2021-09-1800 minAmerican DispatchEpisode 12 | Kristen HareKristen Hare is the editor of Locally, a project at Poynter that chronicles the challenges that newsrooms continue to face during the pandemic. She also works at the Tampa Bay Times as an obituary writer. Her work at Poynter has been crucial in understanding the scope of Covid’s effect on newspapers. Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 85 newspapers have shuttered, and many more have had to make layoffs, a story that Kristen has closely followed for a year and a half now. Before joining Poynter in 2013, Kristen was a reporter with the St. Louis Beacon and th...
2021-08-3031 min
American DispatchEpisode 12 | Kristen HareKristen Hare is the editor of Locally, a project at Poynter that chronicles the challenges that newsrooms continue to face during the pandemic. She also works at the Tampa Bay Times as an obituary writer. Her work at Poynter has been crucial in understanding the scope of Covid’s effect on newspapers. Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 85 newspapers have shuttered, and many more have had to make layoffs, a story that Kristen has closely followed for a year and a half now. Before joining Poynter in 2013, Kristen was a reporter with the St. Louis Beacon and the St...
2021-08-3031 min
American DispatchEpisode 11 | Annie GausAnnie Gaus is the founder and editor of Public Comment SF, an online news startup launched in October 2020 that offers coverage of the city’s economy and policy matters. In May, Annie’s site merged with Here/Say Media, another online local news startup that started at the beginning of this year. She is currently a News Lead at Here/Say. Annie started her career as a video journalist and much of her reporting has focused on the tech industry. Her work can be found in the San Francisco Business Times, the Guardian, VICE, The Daily Beast and Bisnow.
2021-08-1432 min
American DispatchEpisode 11 | Annie GausAnnie Gaus is the founder and editor of Public Comment SF, an online news startup launched in October 2020 that offers coverage of the city’s economy and policy matters. In May, Annie’s site merged with Here/Say Media, another online local news startup that started at the beginning of this year. She is currently a News Lead at Here/Say. Annie started her career as a video journalist and much of her reporting has focused on the tech industry. Her work can be found in the San Francisco Business Times, the Guardian, VICE, The Daily Beast and Bisnow....
2021-08-1432 minAmerican DispatchEpisode 10 | Victor PickardVictor Pickard is a professor of media policy and political economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. He is also the co-director of the university’s Media, Inequality and Change center. He has been writing about the crisis facing journalism for over a decade and recently published a book titled, “Democracy Without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society.” Along with his colleague Timothy Neff, Victor recently published an article in the Columbia Journalism Review about the lack of funding the American government has traditionally offered publicly funded media (the topic of this episode). Victor previously taught at NYU a...
2021-07-3042 min
American DispatchEpisode 10 | Victor PickardVictor Pickard is a professor of media policy and political economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. He is also the co-director of the university’s Media, Inequality and Change center. He has been writing about the crisis facing journalism for over a decade and recently published a book titled, “Democracy Without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society.” Along with his colleague Timothy Neff, Victor recently published an article in the Columbia Journalism Review about the lack of funding the American government has traditionally offered publicly funded media (the topic of this episode). Victor previously taught at NYU and...
2021-07-3042 minAmerican DispatchEpisode 9 | Jacob SimasJacob Simas is the managing editor of The Oaklandside, an online news startup that launched in June 2020 and is overseen by Cityside, a nonprofit media organization whose portfolio also includes the online publication Berkeleyside.
To support The Oaklandside, click here.
Jacob’s career started in community non-profits, where as a counselor and later a program director of Horizons Unlimited, he helped organize violence prevention and arts programs for Latino youth in San Francisco. He later went on to work at New American Media, where he led a community news network called YouthWire, which helped amplify st...
2021-07-1643 min
American DispatchEpisode 9 | Jacob SimasJacob Simas is the managing editor of The Oaklandside, an online news startup that launched in June 2020 and is overseen by Cityside, a nonprofit media organization whose portfolio also includes the online publication Berkeleyside. To support The Oaklandside, click here. Jacob’s career started in community non-profits, where as a counselor and later a program director of Horizons Unlimited, he helped organize violence prevention and arts programs for Latino youth in San Francisco. He later went on to work at New American Media, where he led a community news network called YouthWire, which helped amplify student an...
2021-07-1643 minAmerican DispatchEpisode 8 | Lily JamaliLily Jamali is a co-host of the California Report at KQED. The radio show covers a variety of topics about California, including the economy, immigration and education. While at KQED, Lily has covered the utility company PG&E, which announced bankruptcy at the beginning of 2019 after being found responsible for causing wildfires in the state. In May, Lily released an investigation about PG&E’s Fire Victim Trust, which was set up to help those affected by fires over the years. Lily found that much of the money was going to overhead costs like paying lawyers, and a...
2021-07-0240 min
American DispatchEpisode 8 | Lily JamaliLily Jamali is a co-host of the California Report at KQED. The radio show covers a variety of topics about California, including the economy, immigration and education. While at KQED, Lily has covered the utility company PG&E, which announced bankruptcy at the beginning of 2019 after being found responsible for causing wildfires in the state. In May, Lily released an investigation about PG&E’s Fire Victim Trust, which was set up to help those affected by fires over the years. Lily found that much of the money was going to overhead costs like paying lawyers, and a very small am...
2021-07-0240 minAmerican DispatchEpisode 8 | Lily JamaliLily Jamali is a co-host of the California Report at KQED. The radio show covers a variety of topics about California, including the economy, immigration and education. While at KQED, Lily has covered the utility company PG&E, which announced bankruptcy at the beginning of 2019 after being found responsible for causing wildfires in the state. In May, Lily released an investigation about PG&E’s Fire Victim Trust, which was set up to help those affected by fires over the years. Lily found that much of the money was going to overhead costs like paying lawyers, and a...
2021-07-0240 min
American DispatchEpisode 7 | Meira GebelMeira Gebel is a freelance journalist based in Portland, Oregon who writes about culture, business and technology. On May 27, Meira published an article for Business Insider that looked at how journalism schools were not preparing their students for the challenges facing the industry, specifically freelancing, which Meira argues journalism schools need to build a stronger curriculum around. In addition to her work at Business Insider, Meira’s reporting can be found in Digital Trends, the Willamette Week, USA Today, the Detroit Free Press and other outlets. She’s a graduate of San Francisco State University as well as Columbia Journalism Scho...
2021-06-0453 minAmerican DispatchEpisode 7 | Meira GebelMeira Gebel is a freelance journalist based in Portland, Oregon who writes about culture, business and technology. On May 27, Meira published an article for Business Insider that looked at how journalism schools were not preparing their students for the challenges facing the industry, specifically freelancing, which Meira argues journalism schools need to build a stronger curriculum around. In addition to her work at Business Insider, Meira’s reporting can be found in Digital Trends, the Willamette Week, USA Today, the Detroit Free Press and other outlets. She’s a graduate of San Francisco State University as well as Columbia Jour...
2021-06-0453 minAmerican DispatchEpisode 6 | Robin EpleyRobin Epley is the editor of the Fort Bragg Advocate-News and the Mendocino Beacon and previously worked as a staff reporter for the Chico Enterprise-Record. In 2019, while on staff at the Chico paper, Robin and her fellow reporters were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Reporting for their coverage of the 2018 Camp Fire, the most destructive and deadly wildfire in California history. Robin was also the creator of a podcast for the Chico-Enterprise Record called “Inhaled,” a five-part investigative series about the health problems caused by the state’s wildfires. In addition to her duties as editor of two...
2021-05-2258 min
American DispatchEpisode 6 | Robin EpleyRobin Epley is the editor of the Fort Bragg Advocate-News and the Mendocino Beacon and previously worked as a staff reporter for the Chico Enterprise-Record. In 2019, while on staff at the Chico paper, Robin and her fellow reporters were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Reporting for their coverage of the 2018 Camp Fire, the most destructive and deadly wildfire in California history. Robin was also the creator of a podcast for the Chico-Enterprise Record called “Inhaled,” a five-part investigative series about the health problems caused by the state’s wildfires. In addition to her duties as editor of two ne...
2021-05-2258 min
American DispatchEpisode 5 | Geoffrey KingGeoffrey King is the president and CEO of Open Vallejo, a startup, nonprofit online news site that publishes longform investigations about police and government misconduct in the city of Vallejo, California. An investigative report by Geoffrey for Open Vallejo published in July 2020 about the city’s police officers bending their badges to commemorate fatal shootings went viral, causing a major scandal and a subsequent third-party investigation of the police department.Geoffrey is a native of Vallejo and went to UC Berkeley for undergrad. He then went on to Stanford Law School. As a litigator, he’s represented journalists, acti...
2021-05-071h 15American DispatchEpisode 5 | Geoffrey KingGeoffrey King is the president and CEO of Open Vallejo, a startup, nonprofit online news site that publishes longform investigations about police and government misconduct in the city of Vallejo, California. An investigative report by Geoffrey for Open Vallejo published in July 2020 about the city’s police officers bending their badges to commemorate fatal shootings went viral, causing a major scandal and a subsequent third-party investigation of the police department.
Geoffrey is a native of Vallejo and went to UC Berkeley for undergrad. He then went on to Stanford Law School. As a litigator, he’s represented jour...
2021-05-071h 15American DispatchEpisode 4 | Lydia ChavezLydia Chavez is the founder and executive editor of Mission Local, a hyperlocal and bilingual news site that covers the Mission District in San Francisco. Lydia was born and raised in Albuquerque and her first reporting job after graduating from Columbia’s Journalism School was with The Albuquerque Tribune (now closed). She then went on to work at TIME Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. In 1990, Lydia started working at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, which was where Mission Local originally was founded as a project in 2008.
In 2014, Mission Local became inde...
2021-04-2445 min
American DispatchEpisode 4 | Lydia ChavezLydia Chavez is the founder and executive editor of Mission Local, a hyperlocal and bilingual news site that covers the Mission District in San Francisco. Lydia was born and raised in Albuquerque and her first reporting job after graduating from Columbia’s Journalism School was with The Albuquerque Tribune (now closed). She then went on to work at TIME Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. In 1990, Lydia started working at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, which was where Mission Local originally was founded as a project in 2008. In 2014, Mission Local became independent. The...
2021-04-2445 min
American DispatchEpisode 3 | Thomas PeeleThomas Peele is a Bay Area-based investigative reporter who has been working in the industry since 1983. For 20 years, he worked at the Bay Area News Group, where he was part of the team that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Reporting about the Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland. Thomas is the author of Killing the Messenger, a book about the 2007 murder of Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey. Thomas was also the lead reporter for the Chauncey Bailey Project, where a collaborative group of reporters investigated who was behind the murder of Chauncey. Thomas is currently an investigative...
2021-04-0948 minAmerican DispatchEpisode 3 | Thomas PeeleThomas Peele is a Bay Area-based investigative reporter who has been working in the industry since 1983. For 20 years, he worked at the Bay Area News Group, where he was part of the team that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Reporting about the Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland. Thomas is the author of Killing the Messenger, a book about the 2007 murder of Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey. Thomas was also the lead reporter for the Chauncey Bailey Project, where a collaborative group of reporters investigated who was behind the murder of Chauncey.
Thomas is currently an...
2021-04-0948 minAmerican DispatchEpisode 2 | Hana BabaHana Baba is a longtime, award-winning radio journalist in the Bay Area. She is currently the host of “Crosscurrents,” a daily radio show on KALW Radio. In addition to her role at KALW, Hana is the co-host of another show, a podcast called The Stoop, where she and Leila Day discuss stories from across the Black diaspora.
I met Hana back in 2017 when I interned with KALW during the summer. Hana later met with our student newspaper when I was editor-in-chief of the San Francisco Foghorn. I was struck by how she approached community journalism, representation in news...
2021-03-2648 min
American DispatchEpisode 2 | Hana BabaHana Baba is a longtime, award-winning radio journalist in the Bay Area. She is currently the host of “Crosscurrents,” a daily radio show on KALW Radio. In addition to her role at KALW, Hana is the co-host of another show, a podcast called The Stoop, where she and Leila Day discuss stories from across the Black diaspora. I met Hana back in 2017 when I interned with KALW during the summer. Hana later met with our student newspaper when I was editor-in-chief of the San Francisco Foghorn. I was struck by how she approached community journalism, representation in newsrooms, and...
2021-03-2648 min
American DispatchEpisode 1 | Tim RedmondTim Redmond is a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco who has been in the muckraking business for close to 40 years. He’s currently editor of 48Hills, an online, progressive, non-profit news outlet based out of San Francisco that offers breaking news, investigative reporting and arts and culture pieces. In addition to his duties at 48Hills, Tim teaches undergraduate journalism at the University of San Francisco as well as a class for the School of Arts in Urban and Public Affairs program.In this episode, we speak about how Tim got into journalism, the basics of the loc...
2021-03-1244 minAmerican DispatchEpisode 1 | Tim Redmond from 48HillsTim Redmond is a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco who has been in the muckraking business for close to 40 years. He’s currently editor of 48Hills, an online, progressive, non-profit news outlet based out of San Francisco that offers breaking news, investigative reporting and arts and culture pieces. In addition to his duties at 48Hills, Tim teaches undergraduate journalism at the University of San Francisco as well as a class for the School of Arts in Urban and Public Affairs program.
In this episode, we speak about how Tim got into journalism, the basics of th...
2021-03-1244 min
American DispatchIntroduction | The American Dispatch PodcastAs a young boy 20 years ago, I landed on page two of the Sharon Advocate, the local newspaper in my hometown of 18,000 people in Sharon, Massachusetts. Sadly, that newspaper is now a shell of what it once was. Its story is like many other local/regional news outlets in the United States. Since 2004, close to 2,000 newspapers in the United States have shuttered. Local radio stations and television stations are also suffering. Thousands of journalists have lost their jobs. We are now facing "news deserts" in this country, where entire counties don't have a newspaper.The American Dispatch Podcast...
2021-02-1705 minAmerican DispatchIntroduction | The American Dispatch PodcastAs a young boy 20 years ago, I landed on page two of the Sharon Advocate, the local newspaper in my hometown of 18,000 people in Sharon, Massachusetts. Sadly, that newspaper is now a shell of what it once was. Its story is like many other local/regional news outlets in the United States. Since 2004, close to 2,000 newspapers in the United States have shuttered. Local radio stations and television stations are also suffering. Thousands of journalists have lost their jobs. We are now facing "news deserts" in this country, where entire counties don't have a newspaper.
The American Dispatch...
2021-02-1705 min
FogPodEp. 5 – The Underground Condom Service at USFGuest host Gabriel Greschler sits down with staff writer Haley Keizur, who wrote about a secret condom delivery service that just started at USF.The post Ep. 5 – The Underground Condom Service at USF appeared first on San Francisco Foghorn.The post Ep. 5 – The Underground Condom Service at USF appeared first on San Francisco Foghorn.
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