Joe Eskenazi,

Author Archives: Joe Eskenazi Managing Editor/Columnist. Joe was born in San Francisco, raised in the Bay Area, and attended U.C. Berkeley. He never left. “Your humble narrator” was a writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015, and a senior editor at San Francisco Magazine from 2015 to 2017. You may also have read his work in the Guardian (U.S. and U.K.); San Francisco Public Press; San Francisco Chronicle; San Francisco Examiner; Dallas Morning News; and elsewhere. He resides in the Excelsior with his wife and three (!) kids, 4.3 miles from his birthplace and 5,474 from hers. The Northern California branch of the Society of Professional Journalists named Eskenazi the 2019 Journalist of the Year. Posted inElection Coverage election 2024: Results are in—see votes from across San Francisco

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72%

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The Daily's Verdict

This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.

Bias

85%

Examples:

  • Author uses sensationalist language to describe a close race between two candidates or slates which could be seen as misleading
  • There is no clear indication of who won the election for Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC) and it is not mentioned in any other part of the article

Conflicts of Interest

100%

Examples:

No current examples available.

Contradictions

85%

Examples:

  • Proposition A was winning with a hair's breadth above the two-thirds approval required for passage. The rest of the measures had comfortable margins.

Deceptions

30%

Examples:

  • The title suggests that election results are available when they have not been released yet

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