Yap Zone: The September 11 Artifacts Playlist
What were you listening to after the September 11 attacks?
Press
KALW
Coyote Media: doing away with 'old, tired ethics' (Aug. 26, 2026)
Columbia Journalism Review
They’ve Got Bite: Coyote, a new media collective in the Bay Area, is irreverent, human, and unabashedly political. (June 23, 2026)
Nieman Lab
Journalism coops seem utopian. What’s it like working in one? (Feb. 3, 2026)
Tiny News Collective
How to start a worker-led news outlet: A tale of two newsrooms (Dec. 2025)
48 Hills
It wasn’t all bad! Our 16 favorite local cultural moments of 2025 (Jan. 20, 2026)
San Francisco Examiner
Local reporters live ‘pipe dream,’ founding worker-owned news outlet (July 14, 2025)
SFist
Veteran Bay Area Journalists Launch Worker-Owned News Outlet Coyote Media Collective (June 29, 2025)
Underscore SF
New Independent, Journalist-Helmed Publication Debuts in SF Bay Area (With a Growl), Soaring Past Initial Fundraising Goal (June 27, 2025)
SF Gazetteer
Howling at the news (June 18, 2025)
KQED
Extra! Extra! A Fresh Local News Outlet Arrives With a Howl (June 18, 2025)
Endorsements
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and activist
“When the media world is overrun with corporate behemoths, what we need is a wily COYOTE. Now we have it, and more power to this terrific team of journalists and writers as they channel the genuine Bay Area spirit of the counterculture, of free speech, of challenging the orthodoxy wherever it appears.”
Boots Riley, acclaimed director and rapper
“The cool kids that know all the cool music, art, film, and community events, who write really well—and would never write run-on sentences like this one—are getting together in a worker-owned collective to make a magazine without paper that's independent, local, and corporate-parrot-free. It's called COYOTE. You're gonna wanna check it.”
Liam O’Donoghue, host of the East Bay Yesterday podcast
“I have the highest hopes that COYOTE will rise to the challenge of saving democracy… or at least making it interesting to read about its downfall. I’m also looking forward to the food reviews. This gathering of journalistic talent and experience is sure to create something special. With its unique worker-owned structure, I’m excited to see how COYOTE shakes up the Bay Area’s media landscape."
Alexis Madrigal, author and host of KQED’s Forum
“This is the Bay Area alt weekly that we’ve all been waiting for. The team is fascinating and talented. The cooperative model is right for these times. I’m rooting so hard for them and you should, too.”