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Eddie Kim

Eddie Kim reports on San Francisco news — including politics, crime, commerce, social conflict, and everything in between.

He was a longtime features writer at the critically acclaimed men’s magazine Mel, and has contributed to major publications including Vice, Slate, The Guardian and Paste Magazine. He began his career doing hyperlocal journalism at L.A. Downtown News, where he won multiple awards from the L.A. Press Club and California News Publishers Association.

The Chinatown stabbing was scary. The discourse around it may be scarier

Critics like Garry Tan, Susan Dyer Reynolds, and others are adding bias to a senseless act

March 10, 2026

Nazis in Your Neighborhood: Anti-fascist researchers out an extremist music label operating in the Tenderloin

Based in a supportive housing building, the one-man distributor sells fascist music and merch from all over the world

March 6, 2026

Brooke Jenkins: Stop making billionaires ‘the enemy’

The District Attorney was anything but moderate in her support of the city’s wealthiest

March 3, 2026

San Francisco Standard is going ‘AI-native’

A $150,000 grant from the Lenfest Institute is fueling a new app and more

February 19, 2026

Court dismisses lawsuit alleging abuse by Urban Alchemy workers

A Sausalito man claimed he was attacked for speaking out about unethical behavior, but the nonprofit denies all of it

February 18, 2026

Dial D for dysfunction

San Francisco’s 911 dispatchers are being asked to work with antiquated equipment, crazy hours, poor mental health, and alongside new trainees who aren’t prepared

February 11, 2026

How Jeffrey Epstein advised Minerva university’s early leaders

Newly released emails show how executives of San Francisco’s most ‘elite’ school needed help — and an occasional place to crash — from the disgraced financier

February 6, 2026

What will SF law enforcement do if ICE kicks in your door? Ask again in a few weeks

If SFPD, the Sheriff, and the DA have a plan to protect our Fourth Amendment rights, they’re not sharing it

February 2, 2026

These SF Bay Area companies have ICE and CBP contracts

A handful of small Bay Area firms are profiting handsomely by assisting ICE

January 26, 2026

Crashing out

D4’s Alan Wong says that Sunset Dunes is impacting ‘street safety.’ A new data analysis suggests otherwise

January 22, 2026