The Chronicle Telegram in Elyria, Ohio

Homeless journalist swears in as street reporter in San Francisco

Homeless activist Harry Hooks Swets, 49, began a stint as a radio reporter for KGO after the station scrapped a disguised street assignment. Swets, who lost both hands, lives on San Francisco streets and will cover the city’s homelessness beat with access to the studio and staff. He says he left Mendocino to see what life on the streets is really like, aided by his daughter Shiloh, also a homeless activist, who helped him report on homeless youths. Swets survives nights in a churchyard and works daytime as a volunteer for Coalition on Homelessness.