About
We started this project in spring of 2025 to find ways to give communities control over their news. We are:
Daphne has ten years of experience working in local journalism with responsibilities that included developing community engagement programs, creating successful newsroom and nonprofit collaborations and building operations infrastructure. She is currently an independent consultant and advises startups on strategy and operations. She has held roles as Director of Membership & Community at San Francisco Public Press and Managing Director of Programs at Renaissance Journalism.
Laura has covered San Francisco and Bay Area communities through writing, audio and video for about a decade. Her roles have included reporting, producing, editing, event production and project management across media. She’s developed and launched several civic engagement-focused news podcasts for local newsrooms including the San Francisco Chronicle. Her reporting has centered community needs and leadership on beats like homelessness and housing as well as elections and governance.
Noah is a journalist who has spent 15 years covering local news in San Francisco, in stories ranging from dailies to investigative and solutions-focused analyses. He has extensive experience managing and editing, as well as building internal systems and work processes from the ground up. His specialty is innovative projects that go where other newsrooms do not.