wealth and power reporter @sfstandard. previously @thedailybeast @Independent. words in @thecut @guardian. email: eshugerman@sfstandard.com
San Francisco, CA
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For @marieclaire, I asked five women who say they were sexually assaulted in college what they did the morning after. Their answers were mundane, contradictory, devastating, and often nothing like what we expect trauma to look like.
marieclaire.com/politics/mor…
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At Lighthaven, a former insane asylum turned bed-and-breakfast in Berkeley that doubles as the seat of the AI "doomer" movement, @eshugerman hangs out with the people convinced that there's a 100% chance of artificial intelligence destroying the world. sfstandard.com/2026/09/29/be…
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On one side of the midterm funding divide: AI bigwigs like Greg Brockman and Marc Andreessen. On the other side: AI labs' doomer employees. sfstandard.com/2026/09/24/ai…
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I'm up and running at the San Francisco Standard. Sources, get in touch with me at dgardiner@sfstandard.com. And please add me to your press lists etc.
Super excited to join a stellar team w/ @GregGriffin @FitzTheReporter @ggreschler @MaggieAngst @omarsrashad @sfstandard
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Big @sfstandard scoop this AM: The feds are running a criminal investigation into Newsom’s international travel.
The records sought include communications with Becca Prowda, Newsom's chief protocol officer — and the wife of SF Mayor Daniel Lurie.
sfstandard.com/2026/09/12/ne…
Emily Shugerman retweeted
It feels like all money in politics is now dark money.
Over $1 billion in the midterms is from undisclosed sources.
Secrecy has become so widespread it is essentially systematized.
Welcome to the new normal, with the GOAT @ShaneGoldmacher.
Emily Shugerman retweeted
Started as a tech reporter at @sfstandard today🤠 Send tips, gripes, gossip, and sushi recommendations to rjones @ sfstandard dot com
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SCOOP: OpenAI's ethics lead has left the company after less than a year in post. Chloé Bakalar is the latest in a number of departures last month, as the company faces scrutiny over safety of its model development
ft.com/content/e49dfb75-f841…
Emily Shugerman retweeted
Washington D.C. is America’s Next Billionaire Boomtown
In my first story for @WSJ, I explore how cabinet officials and tech moguls are snapping up trophy properties, pushing the area’s luxury housing market to new highs
Read here: wsj.com/real-estate/luxury-h…
Emily Shugerman retweeted
For weeks, I wondered who was behind San Francisco’s “AI Dread” hotline.
Call it and a soothing voice invites you to set aside “the nagging worry that AI can do our jobs” and reconnect with the human side of work.
Plot twist: it’s an AI company.
I tracked down the people behind it—and why they made it.
sfstandard.com/2026/07/24/ai…
Emily Shugerman retweeted
Interesting.
OpenAI employees also donated $200,000 to Dream NYC, a PAC supporting Alex Bores, and $213,080 combined to Scott Wiener, Alex Bores, and Manny Rutinel's campaigns — all of whom are seen as AI safety champions.
OpenAI employees have donated more than $215,000 to a political effort opposing Leading the Future, a group backed by the company’s president, Greg Brockman. wired.com/story/openai-emplo…
Emily Shugerman retweeted
A fascinating profile of Steve Hilton's Silicon Valley PR superstar wife Rachel Whetstone sfstandard.com/2026/07/06/ra…
Emily Shugerman retweeted
Such a deeply reported, funny piece about Rachel Whetstone, who is arguably far more powerful than her husband, GOP gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton.
Emily Shugerman retweeted
Steve Hilton: Brit running for California governor. Married to
Rachel Whetstone: Brit who has run comms at some of tech's biggest companies.
Great "thing people aren't talking about enough" piece from SF Standard. sfstandard.com/2026/07/06/ra…
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The profile I've been waiting to read about Steve Hilton's better, richer, quieter half — tech PR superstar Rachel Whetstone. Terrific reporting by @eshugerman
for @sfstandard. sfstandard.com/2026/07/06/ra…
Emily Shugerman retweeted
On a call with a major Dem donor, Gavin Newsom had a clear message: there would be no billionaire tax.
He assured the donor that the levy would be negotiated away before a June 25 deadline.
Newsom has ten days to make good on that promise. (gift link)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Emily Shugerman retweeted
Silicon Valley billionaires created an encrypted chat to defeat CA’s proposed billionaire tax.
One idea: buy—and then destroy—the company collecting signatures for the ballot measure.
Emily Shugerman retweeted
Really good @eshugerman piece
Have heard some of these anecdotes along the way. All true!
sfstandard.com/2026/06/13/bi…
Emily Shugerman retweeted
New: Remember that SF hype video with Steph Curry and the coyote from yesterday? A newly unearthed document shows the nonprofit behind it — Believe in SF — plans to spend ~$30M on Lurie’s agenda through 2027. Its donors are secret.
sfstandard.com/2026/06/11/ma…
