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Who we are

The San Antonio Report is San Antonio’s leading local online news source. As a reader-supported nonprofit newsroom, our coverage is never behind a paywall and we are able to publish without any obligation to outside owners or interests. We commit to earning the time and trust of our community by providing useful and informative news, insights and perspectives you won’t find anywhere else, always aiming to spur interest and action in San Antonio communities.

As Texans head to the polls for the 2022 midterm elections, voters will cast their ballots in eight local races including contests for Bexar County judge and district attorney.
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Our history

The San Antonio Report began as the Rivard Report in 2012, founded by Robert Rivard and Monika Maeckle, and has grown into a thriving all-digital nonprofit news publication with a staff of dedicated journalists and nonprofit professionals. We’ve been serving the San Antonio area with high-quality, thoughtful journalism every day since 2012, as hundreds of thousands of readers in the metro area have come to trust and depend on us for credible, fact-based journalism. Our work, which includes daily news reports, in-depth coverage of all facets of life in San Antonio and a year-round calendar of civic engagement events, is local and free for anyone to read and share.

What we do

Provide in-depth coverage and analysis of stories, events, actions, decisions — all things that impact all communities of San Antonio.

Inform, connect, engage and educate our audience.

Reflect the diverse voices of San Antonio.

Empower people with facts to make intelligent decisions and act accordingly.

Hold institutions, government agencies and individuals accountable, while shining a light on the positive impact they can have on San Antonio.

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Brand promise

We commit to earning the time and trust of our community by providing useful and informative news, insights and perspectives you won’t find anywhere else, always aiming to spur interest and action in San Antonio communities.

Environment reporter Lindsey Carnett speaks with Matilde Torres and Gary Perez, indigenous environmental advocates, who explain the presence of the San Antonio River and its surrounding trees in Brackenridge Park speak to thousands of years of native history and cosmology.

Our mission

To provide journalism and civic engagement opportunities, enabling citizens and institutions to build a better city to live, work and play. We aim to go beyond simply reporting the news to deeply engage our readers and mobilize people to make San Antonio a better city in which to live.

Artist Cruz Ortiz (right) and San Antonio Report Art and Culture reporter Nicholas Frank (left) discuss one of the murals painted on the side of the San Anto Cultural Arts building Wednesday.

Our vision

To become the most trusted source of news in the community and to develop a voice that expands farther than the boundaries of our city.

To be at the forefront of digital nonprofit news and establish a foundation for quality journalism that asks every question, develops meaning, and initiates positive change.

Our values

Collaborative

Always Learning

Organizational Integrity

Dedicated

Community Minded

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