About us
Daylight San Diego is a new local journalism startup focused on reaching audiences that don’t feel heard by most existing media in San Diego. We're here to provide news and information that is for San Diego's diverse communities, not just about them.
Mission statement
We strive to empower San Diego's diverse communities through fair, equitable and accurate journalism that listens to their needs.
Our values
- Access to reliable information about local affairs is a right, not a privilege.
- Approaching every community we cover with the care of a good neighbor.
- Providing the journalism that people need, not the journalism we think they need.
- Journalism that represents and reflects San Diego.
- Worker-led practices that reduce power imbalances in and out of the newsroom.
Who we are
Brittany Cruz-Fejeran is a CHamoru award-winning photojournalist in San Diego. She has bylines in CalMatters, Voice of San Diego, The Southwestern Sun, inewsource, and The San Diego Union-Tribune. A recent San Diego State University graduate, Cruz-Fejeran started her freelancing career while attending college. She was the photo editor and staff member for the school’s student newspaper, The Daily Aztec. She was also a fellow for AAJA’s 2021 Voices cohort and was a founding member of SDSU’s Asian American Journalists Association student chapter.
Cruz-Fejeran is passionate about more representation of people from Oceania, particularly the Mariana Islands, where she was born. She loves telling stories about the LGBTQIA+ community, the deaf community, people of color, animals, making science accessible, and more.
Marco Guajardo is a multimedia journalist who served as Editor in Chief and Managing Editor for City Times Media at San Diego City College's journalism program for the last two years. He has a commitment to covering stories that matter to students and faculty, and a focus on highlighting critical issues within the community, ranging from campus governance to broader social topics.
Guajardo's reporting affected the course of several matters on campus, including the selection of the district's chancellor, the passage of free speech resolutions and the fight to preserve the agriculture program and urban farm.
As a binational and bilingual Mexican-American journalist, Guajardo is influenced by independent and international news publications that collectively add context to the rich narratives reported on within the American media landscape. This allows him to understand the importance of insightful journalism that supervises the centers of power locally and globally.
Lauren J. Mapp is a reporter who has covered Indigenous communities, caregiving, senior care, art, music, travel, the restaurant industry and culinary traditions since 2005. Most recently, she was a staff reporter for The San Diego Union-Tribune, but previously worked for several other newsrooms in San Diego County, including inewsource, Times of San Diego and the North Coast Current. Mapp is Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk), and started her career as a reporter for Indian Time and The People's Voice, two newspapers on the Akwesasne reservation that straddles the border of Upstate New York and Ontario.
Since 2008, she has maintained a food, beverage and travel blog called Off the Mapp. She previously served two terms as a board member of the San Diego Society of Professional Journalists, and is a current member of SPJ, the San Diego Association of Black Journalists, Indigenous Journalists Association and San Diego Press Club.
Kate Morrissey has been a journalist covering immigration issues at the San Diego-Tijuana border since 2016. She worked at The San Diego Union-Tribune for more than seven years, and she is known nationally for her work on the U.S. asylum system and border policies.
In 2020, Morrissey published "Returned," an award-winning, four-part series investigating the U.S. asylum system. Beyond her reporting in California and Tijuana, she has traveled to Nicaragua, Honduras and the Mexico-Guatemala border to help her audiences better understand the reality of migration in the Western Hemisphere. She recently received a scholarship to attend City University of New York's Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators Program.
Maya Srikrishnan is an award-winning, veteran San Diego-based journalist, focused on inequality issues. She spent seven years working at Voice of San Diego, covering everything from housing to K-12 education to immigration and redistricting. She also helped lead Voice of San Diego’s civic education initiative, San Diego 101, as an associate editor and led the organization’s diversity, equity and inclusion work. Since March 2022, she was an investigative reporter at the Center for Public Integrity, covering economic inequality issues. She also previously co-directed Voices, the Asian American Journalists Association’s college student journalism program.