Campfire’s octopus, chorizo, and celery-root entrée.
Gage Forster
Podcasts. Investigative news. Reporting about soccer, sewage, city hall and San Diego County.
These are some of the ways San Diegans will benefit from a $2 million investment in four local nonprofit news outlets and one California-wide outlet.
The newsrooms — inewsource, KPBS, NEWSWELL/Times of San Diego and Voice of San Diego — are each getting $300,000. CalMatters, which covers the state, is getting $800,000 to share data and resources with media partners in this region. The grants are split over two years.
The money comes from the Prebys Foundation, San Diego County’s largest independent private foundation, which recently announced investments in downtown real estate and arts education. The foundation also funds medical research, leadership development, and mental and physical health care access.
Why journalism? Because it matters, and it is increasingly vulnerable, said Grant Oliphant, the foundation’s CEO.
“Journalism is important for absolutely everything we fund. You know, you can’t really understand what’s happening in America today if you’re not getting this information. You can’t understand what’s happening with cuts in medical research in San Diego if you’re not getting this information,” Oliphant said.
The foundation had identified nonprofit newsrooms as a good target for investment, given that traditional newsrooms have shrunk or consolidated. The current climate made the need even more clear, he said. The grant announcement comes at a time when attacks on journalists and independent news outlets have heightened, and as public funding for PBS and NPR are expected to face steep cuts under the Trump administration.
“If we don’t have good, independent news organizations, then there really is no one holding the government or the powerful to account, or playing the role of translating very complicated, difficult information for the rest of us to learn about and understand,” Oliphant said.
Instead of pouring more money into one outlet, the foundation decided it was more effective to spread it among the four local newsrooms.
Scott Lewis, the editor and CEO of Voice of San Diego, founded in 2005 and an early innovator in nonprofit news space, said the money will help his outlet hire an investigative reporter to cover city hall, hire journalists to cover the arts and sports in a “conversational” way and to develop podcasts.
This investment shows that the foundation “realizes how important it is to make sure that journalists are able to continue to be able to tell stories about everything that’s happening, and reveal things that are sometimes uncomfortable, and explain how things work, so that people can be a part of the discussion about how we’re going to handle some of our biggest problems and challenges,” Lewis said.
Chris Jennewein, the editor and founder of Times of San Diego, which launched in 2014, said the money will help support expanded newsroom operations and fund coverage of key regional problems and topics readers are excited about, such as professional soccer. His newsroom recently added two full-time editors and five freelancers, and it has four paid interns every semester. Its content is free for readers and supported by a mix of advertisements and donations like this one, he added.
“With this extra funding we can double down on the in-depth reporting on major issues — accountability reporting. Things like the homeless issue, things like city government, what’s happening at the border, the sewage crisis. We’re going to be able to devote more coverage to all those things.”
Lorie Hearn, the editor and CEO of inewsource, which she founded in 2009, said the grant will help “amplify the importance of local news” at a time when public trust in the media has eroded.
“Nonprofit news, like inewsource and our fellow grantees, provide a vital service to the public, especially in these times when many people can’t agree on a set of facts, let alone trust the media. We exist not for profits, but to serve the public,” she said.
“Many people these days have conditioned themselves into thinking news is free because it’s just there, on their phones. But if you have news sources that you regularly check because you can believe and rely on them, there are real journalists behind those posts that are working hard to gather and verify facts so you can believe what you read and are not misled. And those journalists deserve to be paid for that work.”
The foundation’s investment will be used to keep building inewsource’s Documenters program, which is “a unique program that trains — and pays — everyday people to report on what happens at hundreds of public meetings that aren’t covered by the media because of lack of resources. In its first year, we’ve trained more than 300 people.”
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SANDY, Utah — SANDY, Utah (AP) — Sergi Solans had two goals and an assist, Diego Luna added a goal and two assists, and Real Salt Lake beat San Diego FC 4-2 on Saturday night to extend its unbeaten streak to six games.
Morgan Guilavogui scored his first goal in MLS and had an assist for Real Salt Lake (5-1-1). The 28-year-old designated player has five goal contributions in his first six career games.
RSL hasn’t lost since a 1-0 defeat at Vancouver in the season opener.
San Diego (3-3-2) has lost three in a row and is winless in five straight.
Luna opened the scoring in the fifth minute when he re-directed a misplayed pass by Duran Ferree, San Diego’s 19-year-old goalkeeper, into the net.
Moments later, Solans headed home a perfectly-placed cross played by Luna from outside the right corner of the 18-yard box to the back post to make it 2-0. Solans, a 23-year-old forward, flicked a header from the center of the area inside the right post and past the outstretched arm of Ferree to make it 3-1 in the 37th minute.
Guilavogui slammed home a first-touch shot to give RSL a three-goal lead in the 45th.
Marcus Ingvartsen scored a goal in the 14th minute and Anders Dreyer converted from the penalty spot in the 66th for San Diego.
Ingvartsen has five goals and an assist this season and has 10 goal contributions (seven goals, three assists) in 16 career MLS appearances.
Rafael Cabral had three saves for RSL.
Ferree finished with five saves.
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When John Resnick opened Campfire on a quaint little street in Carlsbad, Calif., in 2016, some locals weren’t sure what to think. The coastal enclave wasn’t exactly awash in innovative, chef-driven establishments, so it was a shock to see the dining room consistently full. Early on, one woman wondered aloud to Resnick, “Where did all these people come from?”
It’s a moment he remembers vividly. “I was struck by her statement, because I think she was surprised that so many other people in Carlsbad were there,” Resnick says.
The rest of the culinary world would take some time to catch up to what was happening. In 2019, when Michelin expanded to rate restaurants throughout all of California—not just the San Francisco area—Addison was the only one in San Diego to earn a star. But since emerging from the pandemic, the region’s food scene has grown dramatically. Driven by outstanding farms, ingredients, a bumper crop of talented chefs, and a G.D.P. approximately the size of New Zealand or Greece, San Diego County has become one of America’s most underrated dining destinations.
Campfire’s octopus, chorizo, and celery-root entrée.
Gage Forster
Perhaps no single restaurant is a better emblem for this shift than chef William Bradley’s Addison, which opened in 2006. After landing his first star, Bradley knew he wanted more. To get them, he transformed his French-leaning fare to serve what he calls California Gastronomy, which combines the cultures of SoCal with impeccable ingredients and wildly impressive techniques, prizing flavor over flair. Michelin responded, awarding Addison a second star in 2022, and making it the first Southern California three-star restaurant just a year later. The accolade has created a halo effect, attracting culinary tourists from around the world.
Berry beet tartlets at San Diego’s three-star stalwart Addison.
Eric Wolfinger
“Earning three stars forces the global dining community to pay attention to a place that may not have been on their radar before,” says chef Eric Bost, a partner in Resnick’s four Carlsbad establishments.
Resnick recruited Bost, who spent time at award-winning outposts of Restaurant Guy Savoy, to run Jeune et Jolie, which he led to a star in 2021. They’ve since taken over an old boogie-board factory down the street and converted it to an all-day restaurant and bakery, Wildland. The space also hosts an exquisite tasting-counter experience called Lilo, which was given a Michelin star mere months after opening in April 2025. And as Resnick and Bost grew their successful Carlsbad operation, chef Roberto Alcocer earned a Michelin star for his Mexican fine-dining spot Valle in nearby Oceanside.
The stylish tasting counter at Michelin one-star Lilo in Carlsbad.
Kimberly Motos
About 25 miles to the south, another affluent coastal community is going through its own culinary glow up. In La Jolla, chef Tara Monsod and the hospitality group Puffer Malarkey Collective opened the stylish French steakhouse Le Coq. Chef Erik Anderson, formerly of Michelin two-star Coi, is preparing to launch Roseacre. And last year, Per Se alums Elijah Arizmendi and Brian Hung left New York to open the elegant tasting-menu restaurant Lucien, lured by the ingredients they’d get to serve. “A major reason we chose San Diego is the quality and diversity of the produce,” Arizmendi explains. “San Diego County has more small farms than anywhere else in the U.S., and its many microclimates allow farmers to grow an incredible range of ingredients year-round.”
Wildland’s spicy Italian sandwich.
Gage Forster
Chef Travis Swikard has also been a tireless advocate for the region’s ingredients since he returned to San Diego, his hometown, and opened Mediterranean-influenced Callie in 2021. There’s no sophomore slump with his latest effort, the French Riviera–inspired Fleurette in La Jolla, where he’s serving his take on classics like leeks vinaigrette and his San Diego “Bouillabaisse” with local red sheepshead fish and spiny lobster. Its food is bright, produce-driven, and attentive in execution, while the dining room maintains a relaxed and unpretentious style of service. And Swikard sees that approach cohering into a regional style with a strong network of professionals behind it.
“It’s really nice that we are developing our own identity, not trying to be like L.A. or any other market, just highlighting what’s great about the San Diego lifestyle and ingredients,” he says. “Similar to New York, a chef community is starting to develop where chefs are supporting each other. There is a true sense of pride to be cooking here.”
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