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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 09/08/2026

I went inside Outside Lands’ master control room….a small white box live-streaming to millions of viewers online. 📦

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 25/07/2026

Images of Danny DeVito are everywhere in San Francisco. For several years, an anonymous street artist has sprayed images of Ongo Gablogian, a wig-wearing alter ego of DeVito’s character in “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” on walls across the city.

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 20/07/2026

SFGATE readers: This is what life without ads can look like. Download our ad-free SFGATE app today and get a 7-day free trial 🗞️.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 16/05/2026

When San Francisco cable cars are too worn for the rails, they head to a Dogpatch carpentry shop, where a four-man crew rebuilds them piece by piece — and sometimes leaves hidden mementos for future generations to find.

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 14/05/2026

Happy SF Bike to Wherever Day! I did a lovely route across town and ended the excursion by unintentionally swallowing a lot of sand in the Outer Sunset. Would do it again.

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 21/04/2026

my boss when reviewing this cut: “you have an all time scream. it should be used as like stock scream footage.”

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Tessa McLean @mcleantessa.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

California has a fascination with ghost towns. But what if a town isn’t quite a ghost town? Residents in Darwin, Calif. say the fascination has brought trespassers and misconceptions to a community of real people trying to sustain daily life in a tiny desert town. www.sfgate.com/california/a...

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The Calif. town with less than 30 residents begging for young people to move in

Town residents want visitors to know one thing.

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 15/04/2026

Come to San Francisco, you’ll love the Burmese food. My newest profile with Burma Love, a crowd favorite in the Bay that won “Best Burmese restaurant” in our annual SFGATE Best of Bay Area readers’ choice awards last year. Try the tea leaf salad — it’s insane.

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 29/03/2026

My coworker and I spent hours digging a goalless hole at Ocean Beach. Enjoy us being in the trenches for this groundbreaking journalism. My entire body is aching. 🕳️

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 26/03/2026

From @latimes.com on SFGATE's national parks coverage. 🔗: bit.ly/4sEht2a

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

🚨 BIG NEWS 🚨 @sfgate.com, the West Coast's largest news site, is looking for a new tech reporter. 🧵 below on what we're looking for, or if you want a shortcut, here's the job listing: sfgate.com/careers

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 20/03/2026

As someone who is gluten-free not by choice, this new restaurant addition in San Francisco makes me very happy. My newest video piece for SFGATE;

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 11/03/2026

The most important job in tennis you never see. My newest piece at Indian Wells, aka tennis paradise. 🌈🎾🌴☀️ Which players are you rooting for?

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 07/03/2026

A day in the life of a ball kid at a tennis masters! Was so fun following these cuties around.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 06/03/2026

San Francisco has a reputation for bad style — think dress sneakers, tech company t-shirts and backpacks with suits. As New York Magazine once put it: “S.F. style is the clothing equivalent of water. The taste is so neutral, you can’t be sure it’s there.”

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 05/03/2026

Hello from tennis paradise! Where I will be at for the next two weeks ☀️🌵🏜️🎾👟.

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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 @sfgate.com is hiring TWO summer interns from @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social. Requirements: You have to be a student in Cal's J-School, and you have to want to do a lot of journalism for California's most-read news site. Deadline is 3/2: eevd.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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SFGATE UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Summer Intern, 2026

We are looking for two budding digital journalists to join us here at SFGATE, the most-read media site on the entire west coast, for the summer of 2026. This opportunity will immerse the right candida...

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 26/02/2026

@caltrain.com has won a national award for its video last summer that dunked on the Dodgers. The clip, filmed near the agency’s San Carlos offices, was designed to encourage fans to take the train to Oracle Park. It drew more than 250,000 views on TikTok and Instagram within 24 hours.

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 24/02/2026

Check out our new @sfgate.com food series “Eat Cheap,” where our food team highlights SF’s most affordable restaurants at a time when everything feels expensive.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 24/02/2026

SFGATE found the National Park Service quietly revoked at least 40 job offers for seasonal visual information specialists across 19 parks, according to employees granted anonymity to protect their jobs.

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 23/02/2026

Hi! I’m an SF-based video journalist. Here are some select video stills from my recent journo adventures: 🧵👇 1. “How your Christmas tree gets recycled in SF”

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 21/02/2026

My job is nothing but a humiliation ritual.

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 13/02/2026

My annual Valentine’s Day piece is here. May this monogamous love find me.

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 09/02/2026

i genuinely should not be allowed to make dumb stuff like this for work

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 09/02/2026

Really cool angle (figuratively and physically) we got of the Super Bowl from our on-site reporter. Love the fuzzy palma people hehehehe.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 06/02/2026

Juleon Cotillon, a Bay Area native who lives in Hayward, is the brains behind the Buck Fifty — a white plastic tray for both the hot dog and soda that fits neatly on the top rack of a Costco shopping cart.

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 05/02/2026

Do you have what it takes to feed 70,000 people in a day??!!! My newest video report with our food editor Jessica on Levi’s Stadium’s culinary team, busting their asses to curate and cater a Bay-Area themed menu for this year’s Super Bowl. Much meat was consumed. Had tofu soup for dinner.

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 04/02/2026

Kicking off my Super Bowl video coverage with this geography challenge. These boys gave me a good laugh last night.

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 31/01/2026

San Francisco showed UP today. Here’s my coverage of today’s ICE protest at Dolores Park.

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 29/01/2026

i can’t believe i get to edit something like this for work

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 26/01/2026

A proper Bay Area send off 🕊️🌁🕺🎧 — RIP Westfield

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 15/01/2026

I spent yesterday morning recycling Christmas trees in the city! Follow along for my first day on the job as a Recology waste collector. This is the only time of year where the garbage trucks smell nice — some might even call it a Christmas miracle. 🌲

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 19/12/2025

We gotta get our food team on camera more 😁

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 19/12/2025

I was freezing but it was a fun good hang with friends. ✨ Best holiday lights in the city ✨🌉

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 15/12/2025

When my tech bro founder ex-roommate Connor still lived with me and my roommates the fridge was constantly stocked with Soylent. I personally still have never tried it myself and I’m okay with that.

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 12/12/2025

Can you beat our culture reporter @bimonthly.bsky.social’s personal record of 14 seconds? Play the California Mini now and screenshot me your time.

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 10/12/2025

Our legendary photo editor Charlie prefers to stay behind the camera. But he made an exception to talk about the Oakland A’s final home game photo series that recently got him and our other talented photog Doug an award. Photojournalism at its finest.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 02/12/2025

Paul Mitchell, a redistricting expert based in Sacramento, was the man tapped to make Prop. 50 a reality. When Democrats first floated the idea of gerrymandering in a countermove to Texas, Mitchell thought it was all political theater. He joked to SFGATE that it was all a “bluff.”

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

This is really good

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 26/11/2025

Is SF actually on the rise? Our video intern Nathan worked on this epic short doc about how people perceive San Francisco today, diving into data and speaking to experts to find a link between the city’s perception and its reality. Additional editing and supervision produced by me. Enjoy!

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 25/11/2025

There’s a new family in town — they’re made of bronze, and weigh hundreds of pounds each. Meet the KAWS Family, the larger-than-life sculptures that greet you on entry to the new exhibit at SFMOMA. 'KAWS: FAMILY’ is now open through May 3rd, 2026. ✍️ @dangentile007.bsky.social 🎥 @melissacho.space

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 14/11/2025

Bay Area coaching legend John Beam died around 10 a.m. on Friday after being shot at the campus’s sports facility on Thursday, Oakland police confirmed in a news conference.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 14/11/2025

A prominent Bay Area author said one of his books has been quietly flagged at Yosemite National Park as part of a March 2025 federal directive aiming to remove and revise “negative” information relating to American history.

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 13/11/2025

I happened to take this very train last night on my commute back home. I immediately reached out to SFMTA to see if they had any footage for me to edit together, and we made it happen! Bye bye Breda 🫶, you were the OG Muni train I remembered when I first came to San Francisco as a little person.

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 07/11/2025

@bimonthly.bsky.social Timothy and I saw the world’s most expensive pair of jeans👖. Guess how much they cost.

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melissa cho @melissacho.space · 05/11/2025

I don’t take this bus but now I will 🚌

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 30/10/2025

For those who’ve been looking for a new way to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, political nonprofit the Indivisible Project has some advice: Cancel your Spotify account. ✍️ @dangentile007.bsky.social 🎥 @melissacho.space

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 28/10/2025

Like many people, Lisa Catalano, who is 42, has a simple wish: She wants to get married and have children. But after her fiancé died of a terminal illness and another partner didn’t commit, she went public with her quest, paying for 12 digital billboards on Highway 101.

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