About VidSF

VidSF is a local news website that provides timely and concise video coverage of events for the San Francisco community.

Local news is out of touch.

We were inspired to start VidSF when we noticed our peers were no longer watching local TV news. Its style continues to stagnate, and its content is no longer relevant to our daily lives.

Local journalists don’t have an outlet.

We’ve also found that video journalists have a difficult time finding work in the Bay Area. There are far more people interested in video journalism than there are jobs available for them.

VidSF is an attempt to address both of these problems.

For viewers, we feature timely and concise coverage of the positive local events happening in the San Francisco community. We also feature the stories in your neighborhood that would otherwise be “too small” for local TV news to cover.

For producers, we provide a stable framework for you to locally collaborate on the videos you want to make, and we help you reach a wider audience. We also share our ad revenue, and we actively pursue as many ways as we can to compensate you for your hard work. If you’d like to help out, we’re currently looking for interns.

Who’s in charge here?

  • Kieran founded a TV station in college and then worked for an ad agency where he planned online advertising campaigns. Pretty soon he was fed up with corporate life and started driving a taxi in the City. He still drives 3 days a week to pay rent (and for servers) while working on this project.
  • Steve worked with Kieran on the college TV station and is now a certified design/UI/HTML/CSS/JS whiz. He is still undecided on whether he wants to be a web design rockstar or a rockstar rockstar.
  • Ray also worked with Kieran on the college TV station (are you noticing a pattern here?). Ray brings experience with various local media including broadcast, cable, print, and outdoor. Occasionally he brings donuts too.