The Vallejo Sun

Journalists Scott Morris, John Glidden and Brian Krans founded the Vallejo Sun in 2021. Each of us covered Vallejo for years, but there wasn’t a place to consistently publish the hard hitting, in-depth news Vallejo deserved, so we founded the Sun. Our first story, an exposé on connections between a militant far-right group and a local gun club, won a San Francisco Press Club award for investigative journalism. In our first two years, we also won awards for our coverage of the Vallejo police badge bending scandal and our investigation into deaths in Vallejo’s COVID-19 housing for homeless people. We started expanding in 2022, first by partnering with Gretchen Zimmermann of Vallejo Arts & Entertainment to bring arts and event coverage to the Sun. Since then, our team has continued to grow and we launched a Spanish-language section. We’ve continued our mission of providing hard-hitting in-depth journalism and created opportunities for emerging, homegrown journalists. We partnered on an investigation with the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and joined the California Local News Fellowship program, which allowed us to hire Vallejo native Gretchen Smail as our first full time employee. We think that good, honest local journalism is vital for a healthy democracy and community, and we’re committed to delivering trustworthy reporting that informs and empowers Vallejo and Solano County.