About us

We started this project in spring of 2025 to find ways to give communities control over their news. We are:

Daphne Magnawa

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 Wenus

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 Arroyo

Noah is a journalist with 15 years under his belt covering San Francisco news, through investigative, analytical, and solutions-focused stories. Most of his work has been at the San Francisco Public Press, which he helped build, and at the San Francisco Chronicle, where he was lead reporter on the SFNext community journalism initiative. He has managed and designed teams, systems, and workflows from the ground up. He loves mentoring and, apparently, projects that some might consider daunting. Go here to find what he’s written on this site. noah@newsrelaynetwork.org