Does your site aggregate content from other online sites?
No
Provides training?
Yes
Business model:
For-profit
What are your sources of revenue?
Advertising:
Yes
Donors:
Yes
Other:
Yes
How are you staffed?
How many full-time staffers:
0
How many part-time staffers:
0
How many volunteers:
2-8
How many students:
1-4
Annual operating budget:
less than $100,000 per year
Contact Information
City:
San Francisco
State/Province:
CA
Country:
United States of America
Contact URL:
info@oceanbeachbulletin.com, 415-742-1622
How important is each of the following goals to your project?
Covering news not covered:
6
Watchdogging local government and public officials:
3
Investigating issues or wrongdoings:
4
Helping your community solve problems:
6
Empowering community members:
4
Developing opportunities for community dialogue:
4
Collaborating with local partners:
2
Involving community to shape local content:
2
Making a profit:
5
Being a sustainable operation:
6
What else should people know about your site:
For J-Lab INTERNAL USE ONLY:
Some of the questions in this survey required choosing "yes" or "no" to questions that might be better answered with "sometimes" or "not usually." I had to choose the most correct answer from two choices that didn't really reflect our real practices.
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At the Ocean Beach Bulletin, we cover a neighborhood that's not reflected on the official maps of San Francisco's districts and neighborhoods. We realized there was a community of both geography and interest that wasn't being adequately served by anyone else, so we decided to do it ourselves. Our publisher and editor is a former newspaper journalist who left the field a few years ago, and although some of our contributors are not professional journalists in the traditional sense of the word, we all share a commitment to fairness, accuracy and facts.
What are your suggestions and/or links to other community news sites that should be added to the directory?
This information is correct to the best of our knowledge, but if you’re an owner or founder of this site and the information here is incorrect, please e-mail Lisa Rowan at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) with corrections.
