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Joel covers the forces in San Francisco — money, business, personalities, local law, and politics — that bind the city and pull it apart. He most recently worked for Bloomberg News reporting on state and federal courts.
Previously, he covered the crime beat for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and was a freelancer in New York City. Before that, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal. He was born and raised in Denver, Colorado, studied public policy at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and has a Masters degree from Columbia Journalism School.
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Dressed as ‘Wizard of Oz’ characters, protesters sought an audience with Mayor Lurie

Cydney Hayes is a business and tech reporter for Gazetteer SF. She has previously written about tech, culture, music, and media for The Drift, Architectural Digest, Baltimore, Entertainment Weekly, and elsewhere. She also writes a Substack newsletter called OPENWORLD. Subscribe at openw0rld.substack.com.

Cydney Hayes

Privacy rights advocates push back against data collection devices in Castro bars

Eddie Kim reports on San Francisco news — including politics, crime, commerce, social conflict, and everything in between.
<div>He was a longtime features writer at the critically acclaimed men&#8217;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.</div>
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Eddie Kim

Peter’s Friends: A guide to the Bay Area notables on Peter Thiel’s leaked invite list

Olivia Peluso is a food and drink reporter for Gazetteer SF.
Previously, she covered young founders and changemakers for Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list. She has contributed coverage on business, technology, and climate to publications including Vogue Business, Business Insider, and Travel + Leisure.

Olivia Peluso

Dotcakes are the new Dubai chocolates are the new compost cookies are the new cronuts 

People are celebrating videos of Safeway security roughing up shoplifters

The phone-freein’ Bob Dylan

Cat Ferguson was the editor of Gazetteer SF.
Before joining Gazetteer, she was the features editor at SFGATE. She has also served as an investigative reporter for publications including MIT Technology Review, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, BuzzFeed News, and Retraction Watch.

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