Jesse Rogala
Jesse Rogala is a senior video journalist at The San Francisco Standard, primarily focused on production of feature enterprise videos. In his time at The Standard, Jesse directed the flagship video series "When The Lights Come Up In The City '' and has been nominated for a 2021 LA Press Club Award. Before joining The Standard, Jesse produced videos for multiple award-winning explanatory journalism pieces for Fortune Magazine, and was featured on Fortune’s “Most Memorable Interviews This Decade.” A graduate of the San Francisco State film program, Jesse is an avid consumer of movies and television shows, a big fan of summer camps and excels at reaching things on the top shelf.
Here’s What Landed This SF Housing Nonprofit in Some Serious Hot Water
Watch Powerful Moments From San Francisco’s First Big Reparations Meeting
Everyone Dies. This Bay Area ‘Death Cafe’ Hopes To Normalize Life’s Most Taboo Topic
What Just Happened to Silicon Valley Bank? Here’s Everything You Need To Know
Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Net Completion in Sight: Why Did It Take So Long?
Could Converting Empty Offices Solve SF’s Housing Crisis?
Sen. Dianne Feinstein Is Retiring—Here’s Why That’s Big News
Watch People Try To Pronounce San Francisco’s Trickiest Street Names
‘I Want To Get to the Moon’—Hear the Dream Hobbies of Bay Area Residents
Breed’s State of the City Address in 3 Minutes
Here’s How Much Bay Area Residents Spend on Their Pets
Did Your PG&E Bill Go Through the Roof This Winter? You’re Not Alone
Paul Pelosi Attack Video: Watch the Disturbing Newly Released Footage
The Golden Gate Bridge Was Just Awarded Millions in Federal Funds. Where Is That Money Going?
Where Is Downtown SF, Exactly?
Buttigieg and Pelosi Visit the Golden Gate Bridge, Bring $400M for Earthquake Retrofit
Watch: Why Are Trees Falling All Across California?
Is San Francisco Facing an Egg Shortage? We Went on a Hunt To Find Out
Watch: SF Drug & Homeless Nonprofits Given Huge Amounts of Money in 2022
This SF Charity Worked Through the Holiday Weekend To Feed Those in Need
Macy’s Workers in SF Are Striking Two Days Before Christmas. How Did It Get to This?
Ambulance Response Times Are Increasing Dramatically—Here’s Why
As Hatred Spiked, Asian Americans Raised Their Voices
Popular TV Anchor Dion Lim Reflects on Two Years of Covering Anti-Asian Hate
See The Strangest Items Elon Musk Is Selling From Twitter HQ
Watch Out for These Common Scams This Holiday Season
Supervisor Dorsey Faces Backlash Over Proposed Reality Show Starring SFPD
This SF Homelessness ‘Nonprofit’ was Investigated for Illegal Activity. Here’s What Happened
Watch: The Extraordinary Saga of Sam Bankman-Fried and the Collapse of FTX
Meet the SF Scam-Buster Who Uses a NSFW Moniker To Bust Grifters
Watch This Roundup of the Best Places to View the 2022 World Cup
Dave Eggers’ Educational Nonprofit Marks 20 Years of Bringing ‘Writing to the Center’
Pro Wrestling Has Roared Back to the Bay Area—And It’s Super Queer Now
More California Kids Are Opting for Alternatives to Traditional Education—Just Ask SF’s Independence High
As Twitter Goes, So Goes a Revival of the Neighborhood It Helped Transform
Inside SF’s Frozen-In-Time Criminal Justice Center: Abandoned Shoes, Broken Phone Booths and a Deserted News Bureau
Brooke Jenkins Says She Wants to Focus Less on Politics and More on the Day-to-Day Work as SF’s Top Prosecutor
DA Candidate John Hamasaki on Anti-Asian Hate—and His Notorious Twitter Persona
Joe Alioto Veronese, Scion of an SF Political Dynasty, Wants To ‘Rescue’ the City as DA
Meet Maurice Chenier, Who Bills Himself as the Most ‘Pro-Police’ DA Candidate: ‘I Wouldn’t Describe Myself as Progressive’
Who Will Be San Francisco’s Next DA? Meet the Four People in the Running
‘I’ve Played More Games Than Barry Bonds’: Meet Home Run Hunter ‘McCovey Cove Dave’
Dear San Francisco: Postcards From a Year of Performances Tell the Story of the City
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Hella News: Wait, What Happened on Election Day?
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Hella News: In Wake of Recology Scandals, How Much Does SF Love Garbage Men?
Needles, Naloxone and Board Games: A First Look Inside the Tenderloin Center
Hella News: A Brief Guide to Rooting for the Dubs
Hella News: ‘Orange People’ Roaming Streets of SF
Hella News: Why San Francisco Can’t Build More Housing
Beloved Green Apple Books Turns Page on Covid, Celebrates Independent Bookstore Day
Hella News: The War Over JFK Drive Is Finally Over
Introducing Hella News, SF’s First Comedy News Show
Seven Don’t Miss Moments From Our Chesa Boudin Interview
Tales of a Tower: For the Titan of SF’s Skyline, the New World of Work Presents Daunting Challenges
Know Your Newsroom: The Standard Staff on What We’re All About
Exclusive: Connie Chan Says She’s ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ on JFK Drive Compromise With the Mayor
As the Digital World Turns, the Internet Archive Soldiers on in Quest to Preserve History
We Sat Down With a Class of 6th Graders to Talk About Covid
View of Bayview: A Tour of Third Street’s Black-Owned Businesses
Election Recap: 3 SF School Board Members Recalled by Overwhelming Margin; Haney, Campos Head to Runoff for Assembly
Musical Chairs of SF Corruption Scandal Paves Way for Assessor-Recorder Joaquin Torres’ Election Victory
The Evolution of Shoplifting in San Francisco
One Week To Go! Money Update in SF’s Assembly District 17 Race
Mapping the Money in SF’s Assembly District 17 Race
Hitting a High Note: Core Values and Love of Music Inspire this Talented SF Family Band
