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̶p̶e̶r̶s̶o̶n̶a̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ ̶h̶i̶r̶e̶ senior video producer @sfgate.com. but you can call me SFGATE Girl.

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A day in the life of a ball kid at a tennis masters! Was so fun following these cuties around.

07.03.2026 02:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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San Francisco has a reputation for bad style — think dress sneakers, tech company t-shirts and backpacks with suits. As New York Magazine once put it: “S.F. style is the clothing equivalent of water. The taste is so neutral, you can’t be sure it’s there.”

06.03.2026 19:40 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 2

I personally love the squeaks 🤤

05.03.2026 01:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hello from tennis paradise! Where I will be at for the next two weeks ☀️🌵🏜️🎾👟.

05.03.2026 00:30 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
SFGATE UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Summer Intern, 2026 We are looking for two budding digital journalists to join us here at SFGATE, the most-read media site on the entire west coast, for the summer of 2026. This opportunity will immerse the right candida...

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨

@sfgate.com is hiring TWO summer interns from @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social. Requirements: You have to be a student in Cal's J-School, and you have to want to do a lot of journalism for California's most-read news site. Deadline is 3/2: eevd.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

27.02.2026 01:07 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads In this edition: subsea storytelling, a preservation paradox, achieving serpentine symbiosis, an investigation into infinity, and a marijuana mystery.

In our Weekly Top 5:

* Subsea storytelling @wired.com
* Preservation paradox @hackernoon.com
* Serpentine symbiosis @oxfordamerican.bsky.social
* Investigating infinity @quantamagazine.bsky.social
* Marijuana mystery @sfgate.com

longreads.com/2026/02/27/t...

27.02.2026 15:01 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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@caltrain.com has won a national award for its video last summer that dunked on the Dodgers.

The clip, filmed near the agency’s San Carlos offices, was designed to encourage fans to take the train to Oracle Park. It drew more than 250,000 views on TikTok and Instagram within 24 hours.

26.02.2026 22:39 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 5

Check out our new @sfgate.com food series “Eat Cheap,” where our food team highlights SF’s most affordable restaurants at a time when everything feels expensive.

24.02.2026 23:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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SFGATE found the National Park Service quietly revoked at least 40 job offers for seasonal visual information specialists across 19 parks, according to employees granted anonymity to protect their jobs.

24.02.2026 01:01 👍 57 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 1
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All of these @sfgate.com video concepts are scripted, produced, filmed, hosted, and edited by me (yes, I’m the only video person on staff!).

You can find all my videos here on BlueSky or anywhere else on social. Excited to share with you all some more cool reporting trips in the coming weeks.

23.02.2026 03:12 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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5. For Red Bull’s F1 event in SF: “How fast can you change an F1 tire?”

(We sucked.)

23.02.2026 03:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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4. For Valentine’s Day: “How to love like a penguin”

23.02.2026 03:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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3. “Do Super Bowl players know where Levi’s Stadium is?”

23.02.2026 03:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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2. ‘This isn’t America anymore’: Thousands rally against ICE in SF’s Dolores Park

23.02.2026 03:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Hi! I’m an SF-based video journalist. Here are some select video stills from my recent journo adventures: 🧵👇

1. “How your Christmas tree gets recycled in SF”

23.02.2026 03:12 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

My job is nothing but a humiliation ritual.

21.02.2026 16:42 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

yeah i don’t know about that

17.02.2026 05:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My annual Valentine’s Day piece is here. May this monogamous love find me.

13.02.2026 17:39 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

i genuinely should not be allowed to make dumb stuff like this for work

09.02.2026 04:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Really cool angle (figuratively and physically) we got of the Super Bowl from our on-site reporter. Love the fuzzy palma people hehehehe.

09.02.2026 04:58 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Juleon Cotillon, a Bay Area native who lives in Hayward, is the brains behind the Buck Fifty — a white plastic tray for both the hot dog and soda that fits neatly on the top rack of a Costco shopping cart.

06.02.2026 00:34 👍 83 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 5

How long did it end up lasting?

05.02.2026 00:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Do you have what it takes to feed 70,000 people in a day??!!!

My newest video report with our food editor Jessica on Levi’s Stadium’s culinary team, busting their asses to curate and cater a Bay-Area themed menu for this year’s Super Bowl.

Much meat was consumed. Had tofu soup for dinner.

05.02.2026 00:00 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

No 😭😭😭

04.02.2026 07:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Kicking off my Super Bowl video coverage with this geography challenge. These boys gave me a good laugh last night.

04.02.2026 00:54 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

San Francisco showed UP today. Here’s my coverage of today’s ICE protest at Dolores Park.

31.01.2026 03:15 👍 32 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0

i can’t believe i get to edit something like this for work

29.01.2026 05:38 👍 32 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

A proper Bay Area send off 🕊️🌁🕺🎧 — RIP Westfield

26.01.2026 07:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Recology is so lucky to have Rogelio as their star employee 💚💙💚💙

15.01.2026 18:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I spent yesterday morning recycling Christmas trees in the city! Follow along for my first day on the job as a Recology waste collector. This is the only time of year where the garbage trucks smell nice — some might even call it a Christmas miracle. 🌲

15.01.2026 18:03 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0