By McSweeney’s San Francisco Panorama Newspaper Project Spot.Us and The SF Public Press worked with McSweeny's to bring you the Bay Bridge Report, explaining how costs on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge rose to at least $12 billion.
Much can be said about the piece produced by Bob Portefield, Patricia Decker and The Public Press team and the work they did on the Bay Bridge report.
But for now we will let it stand for itself. Consider that the Public Press is eager to do follow up reporting. So please spread the word - We have produced this great work but with more resources more follow up reporting can happen.
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McSweeney's San Francisco Panorama is being sold today! Find a location near you. Or look for newsies selling them on the street. There's a special deal to get the paper today only ($5). I know there is one newsie at the corner of Haight and Divisidaro. (The visual impact of the bay bridge report in print is amazing!).This story is part of a special reporting project that first appeared Dec. 8, 2009 in the San Francisco Panorama, a single-edition broadsheet newspaper published by McSweeney's. The reporting project, conducted by SF Public Press, was researched and written by Patricia Decker and Robert Porterfield with the assistance of Mike Adamick, Andrew Bertolina, Richard Pestorich and Michael Winter. The project was supervised by Public Press director Michael Stoll. More than 140 people helped to fund this reporting project by donating through Spot.Us.
Some more news on the Panorama and the Bay Bridge report.
