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SFist
U.S. center-left
SFist is a San Francisco-focused local news, culture, and lifestyle blog owned by Impress3 Media. It carries forward the irreverent, left-leaning sensibility of its Gothamist-network roots, and its coverage of the Trump administration since 2025 has been largely critical in tone, consistent with the outlet's urban, progressive-leaning Bay Area readership.
Owned byImpress3 Media, Inc., a small local-news company led by CEO Zachary Chen (which also owns Hoodline); SFist was previously part of the Gothamist network and briefly owned by billionaire Joe Ricketts before being shut down and relaunched under current ownership in 2019
LeaningU.S. center-left
On the administrationbroadly critical
5average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun