Emily Shugerman covers wealth and power for The San Francisco Standard, reporting on the tech billionaires, political operators, and old-money power brokers reshaping the Bay Area and beyond.
Before joining The Standard, she pioneered the gender reporter role at The Daily Beast and covered breaking news and U.S. politics for The Independent. Her investigative work has spurred leadership changes at national nonprofits, policy shifts at major corporations, and letters from U.S. senators. She’s a Newswomen’s Club of New York Front Page Award recipient and a Livingston Award finalist, and a graduate of Occidental College.
selected writing
on wealth
The hack and the flack: How Steve Hilton’s wife, Rachel Whetstone, conquered California
Inside tech elites’ madcap war against the California billionaire tax
OpenAI thinks its critics are funded by billionaires. Now it’s going after them
Before publicly turning on San Francisco, Marc Benioff had privately left it behind
How politics and image control destroyed the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Stanlee Gatti’s still got SF society wrapped around his little finger
How ex-liberal billionaires Ben and Felicia Horowitz made a MAGA U-turn