The Voice of San Francisco garnered nine honors from the California News Publishers Association in this year’s California Journalism Awards, highlighting our newsroom’s excellence across multiple categories for reporting, commentary, photography, and public affairs coverage in 2025.
The awards recognize work examining some of San Francisco’s most pressing issues, including city government, housing, homelessness, transportation, education, and public safety. The honors reflect the newsroom’s mission of producing independent, in-depth reporting focused on the decisions and policies shaping life in San Francisco.
As local news across California and the country continue to navigate financial and industry challenges, this recognition offers encouragement that sustained investment in original, accountability-focused journalism can resonate with readers and peers alike. For The Voice of San Francisco, the awards mark another milestone in its continuing effort to expand coverage of the city’s civic life.
Many thanks to our readers and supporters for making this possible!
The Voice and our writers received awards for the following articles:
First place, editorial comment: Charlie Kirk and America’s legacy of political violence, John Zipperer
First place, health reporting: Open data shows S.F. police drug calls surge 50 percent in two days, Liz Le
First place, homelessness reporting: EXCLUSIVE: S.F. Department of Public Health head: ‘Public drug use is really a problem for other people’, Susan Dyer Reynolds
First place, transportation reporting: Muni riders flood transit agency with operator praise on Transit Driver Appreciation Day, Jerold Chinn
Third place, coverage of youth and education: Grading for Equity coming to San Francisco high schools this fall, John Trasviña
Third place, housing and land use reporting: Housing is becoming San Francisco’s Forever War, Mike Ege
Third place, in-depth reporting: Exclusive: California Department of Corrections ignored serious felony violations in Troy McAlister case, Susan Dyer Reynolds
Third place, transportation reporting: Muni riders face summer service cuts as SFMTA grapples with budget crisis, Jerold Chinn
Fourth place, editorial comment: In a time of uncertainty for Mexican-Americans, continuing the path of my ancestors is more important than ever, John Trasviña
