The Urban Legend

A look inside the Urban Legend newsroom

Daphne Yeh Gilman, Editor in Chief, Print • Feb 12, 2026

Inside the Moon room — the nondescript classroom on the third floor of Page Street campus, also home to calculus classes — the Yeti makes its home. The creature watches as its 20 journalists rush...

Letter from the Editors

Zadie Winthrop, Mira Chandriani, and Maya Campbell, Editors in Chief • Jan 21, 2022

Dear Urban, Your Urban Legend Editors are thrilled to share the 12th edition of The Yeti magazine with you. Despite the challenges the pandemic presented this month, our staff continued to produce...

The Direct-to-Reader Platform Reshaping Independent Journalism

Cooper Makhijani, Staff Writer • Jun 4, 2021

Launched in 2017 by journalist and entrepreneur Hamish McKenzie, Substack is a newsletter publishing platform aimed at small publications and independent journalists. The Legend spoke to Nick Bastone,...

Letter from the Editors

Ellie Lerner and Clementine Daniel • Mar 23, 2021

Dear Urban, In a year unlike any other, our staff has continued to put an immense amount of time and effort into producing issues of The Urban Legend for our community. We are excited to present...

Trip week, spring break begin at Urban School of San Francisco — catch you on the flipside

Apr 13, 2013

It's official — we're leaving. Spring has sprung, and that means that Urban School students will be heading out of the classroom and the Legend newsroom for awhile. Trip Week begins April 15. Urban...

From classroom to newsroom: A look at Urban School journalists who have turned pro

Marney Kline, Staff Writer • Apr 10, 2013

Today, everyone and their dog can harness the power of the Internet to be journalists. Professor Marc Cooper of the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California...

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