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SF Daily Brief

About SF Daily Brief

SF Daily Brief is one page a day of what was reported about San Francisco, grouped by subject. We do not report. Every story is a summary of what an outlet published, and every story links to that outlet.

The brief and its podcast are published in English, Spanish and Traditional Chinese.

How the brief is made

  1. CollectEach morning the pipeline reads the public feeds of local outlets and pulls what they published the previous day.
  2. GroupStories are clustered by subject, so one board vote or one Muni change is listed once, under the outlet that reported it.
  3. DraftA model writes a two-sentence summary of each story from the reporting. It adds no fact the outlet did not print.
  4. CorrectCorrections are stamped on the story with their time. A retracted story keeps its slot, headline struck through, with the reason in place of the summary.

Corrections

If a summary gets something wrong, write to us and we will correct it in place, with the time: [email protected]

Outlets we cite

  • Mission Local
  • KQED News
  • Richmond Sunset News
  • SFist
  • The San Francisco Standard
  • Telemundo 48
  • El Tecolote
  • Sing Tao Daily US
  • World Journal
  • The Frisc
  • SF Public Press
  • The Ingleside Light
  • Potrero View
  • SF Bay View
  • Local News Matters

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