Internet, San Francisco, Writing
SF Appeal: New San Francisco Online Newspaper
There is a new online newspaper for San Francisco-ites: SF Appeal. They launched on Friday, and so far, I love the focus.
It is pretty mind-boggling that there are no real newspapers geared towards San Francisco. The San Francisco Chronical is markedly backwards in their desire for a return to newsprint and in their effort to provide national and international coverage, their SF coverage lacks (in my opinion). The Examiner has almost vanished, and that leaves us with . . . nothing until SF Appeal.
Keep up the good work, SF Appeal, and thanks for covering what matters to me.
Visit SF Appeal at www.sfappeal.com
07 Mar 2009 EWriter
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Thanks for the notice! I’m an Appeal staffer, but when you say there was nothing until the SF Appeal, that’s not quite true. There are a few other organizations in town working to fill the same void, but taking different approaches to the problem. The most impressive one so far, and the one taking the most radically different approach to funding in particular, is The Public Press at public-press.org. I personally see them as complementary rather than competition, because they’re doing something so different from us. It will be interesting to see how things shake out for all of us in the next few years — at this stage we’re all still learning from one another’s experiences.