Company Profile

Company Description:

The San Francisco Standard is a news organization serving everyone with a stake in the future of San Francisco. We aim to build the city’s most trusted, authoritative and contemporary source of news and information, meeting you where you are to help you “Know Your City.” 

We are an independent, for-profit company, with initial funding provided by Michael Moritz, a partner at Sequoia Capital. We believe great local journalism is crucial to helping cities work better. Our newsroom operates with full autonomy and our Editor in Chief retains authority over all editorial decision-making. We’re committed to the highest ethical standards, as described in the Ethics and Standards Policy that you can read below.

We believe in open, direct communications, both in our journalism and in our relationships with our readers and viewers. We welcome feedback of all types. We will surely make mistakes, and we promise to address errors promptly. We’re a small but fast-growing team–mostly reporters, editors and videographers– working out of an office in the Mission District. Please subscribe to our daily newsletter, and you can also find us here and on Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and other platforms.