Yap Zone: How We Got the Bottom of the Hill Story
Emma Silvers on how we got COYOTE's Bottom of the Hill closure story.
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Yap Zone: Q&A with COYOTE's Resident Horse Girl
What do horses have to do with journalism?
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Hey there and welcome to the Yap Zone, our biweekly (that means every other week) newsletter where COYOTE gives you a behind-the-scenes glimpse into our newsroom and a rundown of our team's picks for music, food, events, and lots more. This newsletter is an exclusive offering and extra dose of gratitude for our Yapper- and Howler-tier members. Thank you, and we hope you enjoy!
There are 11 of us on the COYOTE team, and each person has a journalistic specialty that adds so much to what we do. Some of us are passionate about tech or housing policy, while others are always keeping an eye on what's going on with Bay Area food.
While our work stands for itself, we've gotten to know each other very, very well over this past year. Each of us has interests and hyperfixations that we've never been able to channel through our public work. So we'll be sporadically using this newsletter to show those sides of us.
This week, we're highlighting Nuala Bishari. Formerly of the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, the SF Examiner, and Hoodline, she's an award-winning investigative journalist, fabulous femme, and opinion columnist. At COYOTE, she's written about transgender rights policy, San Francisco's street medicine fiasco, and a promising program creating real opportunities for low-income artists.
But did you know she's also a horse girl? I know nothing about horses (besides the fact that they're scary) so I called her up and asked her to spill about the human-horse connection and how horsing around has helped her as a journalist.