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Profile: San Francisco Public Press

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Apply to be Peer Review Editor

The Peer-Review editor has three main responsibilities – to ensure fair and accurate reporting, to be a second pair of eyes before a story is published and to be a sounding board as the reporter develops a story. At any time the Peer-Review editor can also report suspicious activities to Spot.Us.
For pitch: California’s Haphazard Fight Against Human Trafficking
January 24, 2012

Apply to be Peer Review Editor

The Peer-Review editor has three main responsibilities – to ensure fair and accurate reporting, to be a second pair of eyes before a story is published and to be a sounding board as the reporter develops a story. At any time the Peer-Review editor can also report suspicious activities to Spot.Us.
For pitch: Can S.F.'s next mayor save Muni?
September 29, 2011

Apply to be Peer Review Editor

The Peer-Review editor has three main responsibilities – to ensure fair and accurate reporting, to be a second pair of eyes before a story is published and to be a sounding board as the reporter develops a story. At any time the Peer-Review editor can also report suspicious activities to Spot.Us.
For pitch: Who really pays for San Francisco to cover the uninsured?
September 29, 2011

Apply to be Peer Review Editor

The Peer-Review editor has three main responsibilities – to ensure fair and accurate reporting, to be a second pair of eyes before a story is published and to be a sounding board as the reporter develops a story. At any time the Peer-Review editor can also report suspicious activities to Spot.Us.
For pitch: How the Media Meltdown is Leaving Bay Area Residents in the Dark
March 31, 2011

Apply to be Peer Review Editor

The Peer-Review editor has three main responsibilities – to ensure fair and accurate reporting, to be a second pair of eyes before a story is published and to be a sounding board as the reporter develops a story. At any time the Peer-Review editor can also report suspicious activities to Spot.Us.
For pitch: Urban outcasts: San Francisco’s ongoing housing and homelessness crisis
March 18, 2011

Apply to be Peer Review Editor

The Peer-Review editor has three main responsibilities – to ensure fair and accurate reporting, to be a second pair of eyes before a story is published and to be a sounding board as the reporter develops a story. At any time the Peer-Review editor can also report suspicious activities to Spot.Us.
For pitch: San Francisco's Muni: Why can't it run on time?
September 10, 2010

Blogging from the field

The Treasure Island reporting team includes seasoned freelance journalists who have written extensively on politics, environment and development:

  • Victoria Schlesinger — (The New York Times, PBS Frontline, Mother Jones)
  • Bernice Yeung — (The New York Times, East Bay Express, SF Weekly)
  • Christopher Cook — (Harper’s, The Economist, The Christian Science Monitor, Columbia Journalism Review)
  • Alison Hawkes — (The World, KQED, NPR, KALW News)

PLUS: Jeremy Smith, editor of Shareable.net, is contributing a story assessing the visionary design and social objectives slated for Treasure Island. Shareable.net is donating the first $1,000 toward this pitch.

With this assignment they can post blogs and updates along the way.

For pitch: Treasure Island: Can San Francisco realize its ecotopian dream?
June 1, 2010

Apply to be Peer Review Editor

The Peer-Review editor has three main responsibilities – to ensure fair and accurate reporting, to be a second pair of eyes before a story is published and to be a sounding board as the reporter develops a story. At any time the Peer-Review editor can also report suspicious activities to Spot.Us.
For pitch: Treasure Island: Can San Francisco realize its ecotopian dream?
May 29, 2010

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