First place at the Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards!

😆 Haha I missed last week's Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards party, so I didn't realize my story about San Francisco removing its last print newspaper rack won a first place award! 🏆

💡 As you may know, doing the research for this story is what gave me the idea to modernize the dusty old print newspaper rack and turn it into a digital neighborhood bulletin board, and hence Good Neighbor Lab was born. Even though no one else in San Francisco seemed to blink an eye when the print newspaper racks disappeared (because they were filled with trash and we can get the news on our phones, amirite?), to me the removals represented not just the decline of print media but something deeper-- an extinction event for community information in San Francisco's public spaces.

So this award is special to me 'cause I'm not a journalist and no one asked me to write this. This was purely me noticing something disappearing in my neighborhood-- wondering what happened-- and following the path where that curiosity led me.

🙏 I am grateful for the time of all the lovely people I spoke for this story, and my friends at Mission Local for editing and publishing it. You can read the story here.