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Jesse Rogala
Jesse Rogala is a senior video journalist at The San Francisco Standard primarily focused on the production of feature enterprise videos. In his time at The Standard, Jesse’s video work has received awards from the San Francisco Press Club, Editor and Publisher magazine and was nominated for a 2022 Online News Association award. Before joining The Standard, Jesse produced enterprise videos for Fortune Magazine and was featured on Fortune’s “Most Memorable Interviews This Decade.” A graduate of the San Francisco State University 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.
Woman’s Body Found in Duffle Bag in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Sunday
How a Gen Z-Boomer Friendship Blossomed in San Francisco’s LGBTQ+ Community
By Jesse Rogala
Jul. 11, 2023 • 6:00amWill LGBTQ+ Contestants Make Miss California Relevant Again?
By Liz Lindqwister
Jul. 06, 2023 • 5:30amMeet Miss San Francisco—the First Trans Woman To Win Miss California?
By Liz Lindqwister
Jun. 17, 2023 • 10:00amDowntown San Francisco Is Dead—So What Brings People to the Area?
San Francisco Mayor Had Secret Meeting With Nancy Pelosi on City’s Drug Crisis
By Joe Burn
Jun. 01, 2023 • 6:00amWant To Go Bowling in San Francisco? Try This Club in the Mission
By Astrid Kane
May 29, 2023 • 12:17pmWoman Throws Brick at SF Officials After UN Plaza Meeting Cut Short by Heckling
Steph Curry Celebrated at Screening of New Documentary: ‘Underrated’
By Christina Campodonico
Apr. 14, 2023 • 6:00pmHere’s What Landed This SF Housing Nonprofit in Some Serious Hot Water
By Jesse Rogala
Mar. 21, 2023 • 1:45pmWatch Powerful Moments From San Francisco’s First Big Reparations Meeting
By The Standard Staff
Mar. 15, 2023 • 3:47pmEveryone Dies. This Bay Area ‘Death Cafe’ Hopes To Normalize Life’s Most Taboo Topic
By Julie Zigoris
Mar. 15, 2023 • 7:00amWhat Just Happened to Silicon Valley Bank? Here’s Everything You Need To Know
By Jesse Rogala
Mar. 10, 2023 • 2:15pmGolden Gate Bridge Suicide Net Completion in Sight: Why Did It Take So Long?
By Jesse Rogala
Mar. 08, 2023 • 6:30amCould Converting Empty Offices Solve SF’s Housing Crisis?
By Jesse Rogala
Feb. 23, 2023 • 3:04pmSen. Dianne Feinstein Is Retiring—Here’s Why That’s Big News
By Jesse Rogala
Feb. 15, 2023 • 3:00pmWatch People Try To Pronounce San Francisco’s Trickiest Street Names
By Jesse Rogala
Feb. 14, 2023 • 1:30pm‘I Want To Get to the Moon’—Hear the Dream Hobbies of Bay Area Residents
By Jesse Rogala
Feb. 10, 2023 • 11:25amBreed’s State of the City Address in 3 Minutes
By Jesse Rogala
Feb. 09, 2023 • 3:04pmHere’s How Much Bay Area Residents Spend on Their Pets
By Jesse Rogala
Feb. 08, 2023 • 11:17amDid Your PG&E Bill Go Through the Roof This Winter? You’re Not Alone
By Jesse Rogala
Jan. 27, 2023 • 5:05pmPaul 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?
By Jesse Rogala
Jan. 24, 2023 • 5:24pmWhere Is Downtown SF, Exactly?
By Christina Campodonico
Jan. 24, 2023 • 8:00amButtigieg and Pelosi Visit the Golden Gate Bridge, Bring $400M for Earthquake Retrofit
Watch: Why Are Trees Falling All Across California?
By Jesse Rogala
Jan. 12, 2023 • 4:00pmIs San Francisco Facing an Egg Shortage? We Went on a Hunt To Find Out
By Jesse Rogala
Jan. 11, 2023 • 11:41amWatch: SF Drug & Homeless Nonprofits Given Huge Amounts of Money in 2022
By Jesse Rogala
Dec. 28, 2022 • 5:02pmThis SF Charity Worked Through the Holiday Weekend To Feed Those in Need
By Jesse Rogala
Dec. 25, 2022 • 6:12pmMacy’s Workers in SF Are Striking Two Days Before Christmas. How Did It Get to This?
By Kevin V. Nguyen
Dec. 23, 2022 • 5:13pmAmbulance Response Times Are Increasing Dramatically—Here’s Why
By Jesse Rogala
Dec. 22, 2022 • 4:57pmAs Hatred Spiked, Asian Americans Raised Their Voices
Popular TV Anchor Dion Lim Reflects on Two Years of Covering Anti-Asian Hate
By Jesse Rogala
Dec. 21, 2022 • 4:59amSee The Strangest Items Elon Musk Is Selling From Twitter HQ
By Jesse Rogala
Dec. 16, 2022 • 5:00pmWatch Out for These Common Scams This Holiday Season
By Jesse Rogala
Dec. 09, 2022 • 11:00amSupervisor Dorsey Faces Backlash Over Proposed Reality Show Starring SFPD
By Jesse Rogala
Dec. 07, 2022 • 8:00amThis SF Homelessness ‘Nonprofit’ was Investigated for Illegal Activity. Here’s What Happened
By Mike Kuba
Nov. 28, 2022 • 6:30pmWatch: The Extraordinary Saga of Sam Bankman-Fried and the Collapse of FTX
By Jesse Rogala
Nov. 23, 2022 • 5:50pmMeet the SF Scam-Buster Who Uses a NSFW Moniker To Bust Grifters
By Garrett Leahy
Nov. 23, 2022 • 7:00amWatch This Roundup of the Best Places to View the 2022 World Cup
By Jesse Rogala
Nov. 17, 2022 • 5:13pmDave Eggers’ Educational Nonprofit Marks 20 Years of Bringing ‘Writing to the Center’
By Christina Campodonico
Nov. 11, 2022 • 12:00pmPro Wrestling Has Roared Back to the Bay Area—And It’s Super Queer Now
By Astrid Kane
Nov. 02, 2022 • 5:00pmMore California Kids Are Opting for Alternatives to Traditional Education—Just Ask SF’s Independence High
By Ida Mojadad
Nov. 02, 2022 • 5:00amAs Twitter Goes, So Goes a Revival of the Neighborhood It Helped Transform
By Kevin Truong
Oct. 24, 2022 • 5:00amInside SF’s Frozen-In-Time Criminal Justice Center: Abandoned Shoes, Broken Phone Booths and a Deserted News Bureau
By Jonah Owen Lamb
Oct. 04, 2022 • 12:01pmBrooke Jenkins Says She Wants to Focus Less on Politics and More on the Day-to-Day Work as SF’s Top Prosecutor
By Han Li
Sep. 22, 2022 • 2:00pmDA Candidate John Hamasaki on Anti-Asian Hate—and His Notorious Twitter Persona
By Han Li
Sep. 21, 2022 • 2:00pmJoe Alioto Veronese, Scion of an SF Political Dynasty, Wants To ‘Rescue’ the City as DA
By Han Li
Sep. 20, 2022 • 2:12pmMeet Maurice Chenier, Who Bills Himself as the Most ‘Pro-Police’ DA Candidate: ‘I Wouldn’t Describe Myself as Progressive’
By Han Li
Sep. 19, 2022 • 2:00pmWho Will Be San Francisco’s Next DA? Meet the Four People in the Running
By Han Li
Sep. 17, 2022 • 8:00am‘I’ve Played More Games Than Barry Bonds’: Meet Home Run Hunter ‘McCovey Cove Dave’
By Jesse Rogala
Sep. 14, 2022 • 2:54pmDear San Francisco: Postcards From a Year of Performances Tell the Story of the City
By Jesse Rogala
Aug. 31, 2022 • 4:02pm‘Writing Should be Joyful and Strange’: Author Dave Eggers on His 826 Valencia Project
By Christina Campodonico
Aug. 29, 2022 • 6:44pmMezli Serves Up Robot-Made Mediterranean Food in SF’s Mission Bay
By Kevin Truong
Aug. 27, 2022 • 10:00amHillary Ronen Defends Closing BART Station Plazas in the Mission: ‘My Back Is Against the Wall’
By Josh Koehn
Jul. 22, 2022 • 2:42pm‘Getting Harder By the Day’: SF School District Looks to Staff Up as Droves of Teachers Depart
By Ida Mojadad
Jul. 18, 2022 • 11:30amHella News: Willie Brown’s Half-Year in Review
Hella News: Lots of Love for Bill to Keep SF Bars Open Until 4 a.m.
Hella News: Wait, What Happened on Election Day?
Decades-Old Keepsakes Found Behind Mantle of For-Sale ‘Pink Painted Lady’ on Postcard Row
By Sophie Bearman
Jun. 05, 2022 • 6:08amHella 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
By David Sjostedt
Jun. 02, 2022 • 11:24amHella News: A Brief Guide to Rooting for the Dubs
Hella News: ‘Orange People’ Roaming Streets of SF
By Josh Koehn
May 19, 2022 • 10:30amHella News: Why San Francisco Can’t Build More Housing
Beloved Green Apple Books Turns Page on Covid, Celebrates Independent Bookstore Day
By Christina Campodonico
Apr. 30, 2022 • 7:51amHella 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
By Anna Tong
Apr. 15, 2022 • 4:08pmTales 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
By Jonathan Weber
Mar. 25, 2022 • 4:16pmExclusive: 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
By Jesse Rogala
Mar. 16, 2022 • 2:02pmWe Sat Down With a Class of 6th Graders to Talk About Covid
By Sarah Wright
Mar. 04, 2022 • 11:14amView of Bayview: A Tour of Third Street’s Black-Owned Businesses
By Kevin Truong
Feb. 25, 2022 • 3:50pmMusical Chairs of SF Corruption Scandal Paves Way for Assessor-Recorder Joaquin Torres’ Election Victory
By Mike Ege
Feb. 14, 2022 • 12:30pmThe Evolution of Shoplifting in San Francisco
By Jesse Rogala
Feb. 11, 2022 • 6:30amOne 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
By Camille Cohen
Jan. 07, 2022 • 2:33pmThe San Francisco Standard’s Best Videos of 2021
By The Standard Staff
Jan. 01, 2022 • 10:54amMayor Announces Crackdown on Tenderloin Crime in Fiery Press Conference
By David Sjostedt
Dec. 14, 2021 • 2:09pmAt the Granada Hotel, a Rush to House the Homeless Comes at the Expense of Elderly Tenants
By Annie Gaus
Dec. 09, 2021 • 8:44amHelping a Hungry City: Building Community Through Burritos
By Jesse Rogala
Nov. 26, 2021 • 7:27amElection Season Kickoff: The Race for SF’s Assembly District 17
By Annie Gaus
Nov. 18, 2021 • 10:57amMeet Renel Brooks-Moon, the Remarkable Voice of Oracle Park and the San Francisco Giants
Judy Chicago’s Feminist Art is Unapologetically Colorful
By Jesse Rogala
Oct. 18, 2021 • 5:05pmThe Race to Replace David Chiu, Explained
Dear San Francisco: A Circus Comes To Town
These Extraordinary ‘Light Art’ Installations Illuminate S.F. by Night
By Jesse Rogala
Sep. 01, 2021 • 8:02amS.F. Reimburses Sustainable Commuters for Emergency Rides Home
By Jesse Rogala
Aug. 25, 2021 • 12:53pmJourney to the Bayview Gateway: A Look at San Francisco’s New Iconic Signage
When the Lights Come Up in the City: Innovative Outer Sunset
When the Lights Come Up in the City: North Beach Hustle
When the Lights Come Up in the City: Bayview Strong
‘Somebody Is Going to Get Hurt’: Target Security Guard Speaks Out About S.F. Retail Crime
The Hardest-Working Man in Roller Skating: Meet San Francisco’s ‘Godfather of Skate’
By Jesse Rogala
May 06, 2021 • 10:22amA Recipe for Success: Equity Is Baked Into La Cocina Municipal Marketplace
A Monument To The ‘Mothers of Gynecology’ Rises In San Francisco
