SF Public Press, is a non-profit online and print news organization covering the Bay Area.

The Public Press is unique among local online startups in that it has published print newspaper editions of its content.

"[2] In Fall, 2010 Public Press won an award from the Society of Professional Journalists for explanatory journalism for a series of pieces published online and in print about plans to develop San Francisco's Treasure Island.

The idea for the package was hatched by Jeremy Adam Smith, chief editor of Shareable at the time, who also contributed reporting to the series.

The press release from SPJ said: "The exhaustively reported package - which exposed the seemingly pipe-dream quality of the project, the political cronyism behind it and the widespread uprooting that the redevelopment will cause - was done on a shoestring budget with funding from Shareable.net[3][failed verification] and micro-donations via Spot.Us.