San Francisco news outlet lays off entire staff and shuts down after cash crisis – New York Post

San Francisco news outlet lays off entire staff and shuts down after cash crisis  New York Post

The Frisc, a San Francisco nonprofit news outlet, will shut down at the end of September after nearly a decade due to funding shortfalls. A San Francisco news outlet is shutting down after nearly a decade in business after its funding dried up. The Frisc — an independent nonprofit publication focused on San Francisco — will cease operations at the end of September after running out of money to keep publishing, founder Alex Lash told the San Francisco Standard. “We have pretty much run out of money,” Lash told the outlet, revealing that he’s even paying for the publication’s farewell party out of his own pocket. The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now.

The publication launched in 2017 after Lash and fellow journalists Anthony Lazarus and Barry Owen, along with designer Jeremy LaCroix, saw what they believed was a hole in San Francisco’s local news coverage. Over the next nine years, The Frisc published hundreds of stories and gave early assignments and jobs to young reporters breaking into the city’s journalism scene. Its coverage initially centered heavily on San Francisco’s housing crisis before expanding into issues including homelessness, shrinking public school enrollment, public transportation and street safety. Lash left his job as national biotech editor at digital media company Xconomy in 2019 to run the publication full