Daniel Jewett

I am an award-winning San Francisco Bay Area journalist with more than 30 years of experience writing and editing for local newspapers and magazines. I got my start reporting for the San Mateo High School paper and eventually went on to edit and write for a chain of weeklies on the Peninsula, including a stint as the sole editor of my hometown paper, the Foster City Progress. It was there that I reported on everything from the expansion of the San Francisco International Airport to traffic delays caused by duck crossings.

Next, I moved on to the world of monthly magazines where I became enchanted with the better print quality and the ability to tell the story behind the story — the stuff the weeklies rarely had time for. After a tenure at Oakland and Alameda magazines, I moved on to Marin Magazine where I worked as that magazine's primary editor for nearly 12 years. I also served as editor of that publication’s premier home and design magazine called Spaces. I am proud that during my tenure at Marin, our staff won many prestigious WPA Maggie, CRMA and Folio Eddie & Ozzie awards including a best overall city and regional magazine Folio award for 2019.

But wait, there’s more. As a multiplatinum songwriter (Counting Crows), I am also very interested in sound. When I’m not making records with my Oakland-based indie band, I'm helping nationally-known interior designers and architects tell their stories in their own voices as a podcaster. I produced, edited and was the voice of the Space Makers podcast that echoed themes and personalities found in Spaces magazine.

In March 2020 I co-founded Marin Living magazine and Five19 Publishing with three partners who had decades of experience at other well-known California publications. This highly successful magazine resonated with readers immediately — even winning a Folio Eddie & Ozzie award for best debut publication in 2020 — and is the area’s preeminent lifestyle magazine delivered to 30,000 Marin and San Francisco residents 10 times a year. Using our existing skill sets, we also launched Five19 Brand Studio which has helped countless clients with everything from copywriting and video production to logos and campaign creation. As the editorial and operations director, you can find me doing everything from facilitating the production process and deploying digital campaigns to writing and editing stories, and more.