About the Tenderloin Voice

The Tenderloin Voice is a newsroom serving San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood and was built in collaboration with residents. We practice a model of journalism that shares editorial power with audiences.

We do this by: 

• Asking the community what they want us to cover, and then covering it.
• Inviting community members to write for us, to tell their stories themselves.
• Convening listening sessions to ask people how the newsroom should serve them.

We launched the Voice in January 2026 to help the Tenderloin have its say, in a media and political environment that is seldom fair to it and the people who live and work here.

Who are we?

The Voice is run by Noah Arroyo, Daphne Magnawa, and Laura Wenus. The three of us founded News Relay Network, publisher of the Voice.

Noah and Laura are both longtime local journalists who have spent most of their careers at publications like Mission Local, the San Francisco Public Press, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Daphne is an organizer with experience in newsroom operations and development.

To learn more about us, News Relay Network, and why we started that organization, go here.

Where you can find the Voice

The Voice publishes a zine, which we print, assemble, and distribute in the neighborhood by hand. Find the zine at the following locations.

• SF Main Library: 100 Larkin St.
  • 1st-floor kiosk labeled “Tenderloin Community Resources,” near the information desk
  • 5th-floor Magazines and Newspapers Center, on the shelves labeled “Community Newspapers”
• The Healing WELL: 374 Ellis St.
• Faithful Fools: 234 Hyde St.
• Cafe Suspiro, in SoMa: 1246 Folsom St.
• Our office (scroll down to the section, “Contact us”)

If you check a location and it’s out of zines, tell us! We’ll run some fresh copies over. Email us at hello@tlvoice.org.

If you’d like to print your own zine, or if you want to see the zine on your computer or mobile device, check out our zine archive. Please note, though: There are several PDF files embedded in that page and it could take a long time to load.

We also publish online, which means many things. News stories can be found on this site, of course, but you can also get our stories by email newsletter. We are looking into distribution via text message (SMS and WhatsApp) as well as establishing a presence on various social media.

Contact us

Come visit us at our Tenderloin office!

The Workspace on Eddy
233 Eddy St.

This is a co-working space operated by New Community Leadership Foundation.

Our general inbox is hello@tlvoice.org. To make sure someone’s at the office to greet you, feel free to email us beforehand.