In the media
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Building news in San Francisco’s Tenderloin through a print-first, multilingual, community-owned newsroom - Editor and Publisher
In a neighborhood often defined by outsiders through a narrow lens, three Bay Area newsroom veterans are working to shift power to the people who live there. “We realized it was about listening first,” Laura Wenus told E&P. She, Noah Arroyo and Daphne Magnawa have launched News Relay Network to build a new kind of hyperlocal newsroom. Their first project, The Tenderloin Voice, is being developed with residents of one of San Francisco’s most diverse neighborhoods.
Diane Sylvester | for E&P Magazine
🔶 News Alchemists #40: “How these news outlets cater to marginalised audiences”
Hello and welcome back to the News Alchemists newsletter! 10 editions ago, I included in the seven links a question posed by Professor Rasmus Kleis Nielsen at the US launch of the 2025 Digital News Report: What are examples of news media that do a great job of serving poor
Mattia Peretti
🔶 News Alchemists #38: “What two researchers found in a yearlong quest for journalism innovation”
Hello and welcome back to the News Alchemists newsletter! Do you remember JR3? It’s the project I developed earlier this year with the Knight Lab at Northwestern University to explore how journalism might be more useful to its audiences. (JR3 is short for ‘Rethink, Recenter, Reimagine. Journalism in Transition’.) Two
Mattia Peretti
News Relay Network aims to better serve readers with neighbourhood news
Laura Wenus, a co-founder of News Relay Network, details the planned pilot newsroom the company will roll out next month in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighbourhood.
Amalie Nash