Welcome to COYOTE!

You just joined thousands of readers who are building a better, punchier, weirder Bay Area news ecosystem with us. We're really glad you're here.

When we set out to launch COYOTE Media Collective, it was with a vision of a newsroom where we could pursue the stories we deeply cared about. To do this, we built a worker-owned cooperative where the people who produce the work actually steer the business that prospers from their labor.

The thing that keeps us all up at night is the fact that the vast majority of news outlets in the U.S. are owned by a shrinking number of corporations and billionaires. Local journalism is dying, and the Bay Area has lost most of its alternative weeklies — the ones that gave you deep investigations and told you where the best shows were happening.

At COYOTE, we have no venture capital funding and no corporate money limiting the scope of our journalism. Instead, our fate is in the hands of our talented and passionate worker-owners.

What we're bringing you:

Locally rooted journalism that combines nuanced coverage of the region's most urgent issues with some much-needed alt-weekly-style fun. Each week, you'll find stories covering news, culture, sports, food, music, and more.

You might read an investigation into where all the Oakland A’s elephants went, a review of a one-of-a-kind restaurant-cum-Pokemon shrine, and a guide to becoming a flakier friend. We’ll bring you news stories that matter, like examinations into San Francisco’s struggling street medicine teams, guides to where SNAP recipients can access free hot meals during a government shutdown, coverage of local activism, and coverage of the thriving food scene in downtown San Jose. You'll find human-centered Bay Area stories that rarely make national headlines.

Plus, we're bringing back a big alt weekly feature: A curated weekly calendar of Bay Area concerts, art openings, food pop-ups, and events we're genuinely excited about.

To make this work, we rely on our members. When you become a member for just $8/month (or $80/year), you get:

• Full access to all stories (Yappers and Howlers get an extra behind-the-scenes story, too)
• A weekly heads-up on future Bay Area events that are likely to sell out
• The comments section to talk smack or connect with fellow members
• The satisfaction of supporting worker-owned, independent journalism

So far, thousands of readers have joined as free subscribers, and more than 1,600 have already become paying members who make this work possible.

Since you just signed up, we wanted to encourage you to take the leap and support this new model of local journalism. You can keep reading select free stories, but if you become a member now, you'll get 15% off your first year of membership. That's just $68, or about $1.30 per week. That's about half of an avocado!?

COYOTE doesn't just belong to us — it's yours, too. Submit an event for our calendar, ask us to investigate a weird Bay Area mystery, or come say hi at our next event!

Thank you for trying COYOTE. Don't be a stranger.

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COYOTE Media Collective