We have big news: The American Journalism Project is investing $1.5 million in Mission Local!
It’s a powerful validation of our neighborhood-first reporting from one of the largest national journalism funders, and will help us expand our reporting to more neighborhoods.
Thank you for reading us — and supporting us — all these years.
49 ° at 6:39 a.m. with promises of 65 ° and another reminder that summer in San Francisco – even in the Mission – often requires a sweater.
It’s Not in the Mission But…
Darn these murals by Jorge Rodriguez Gerada are good and posted in my latest favorite blog, Curbs & Stoops
Dirty Hands
MissionMission head’s up on the Roxie’s showing all week of a documentary of David Choe’s life and times.
Enjoy the day – take a sweater!
Founder/Executive Editor. I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.
As an old friend once pointed out, local has long been in my bones. My Master’s Project at Columbia, later published in New York Magazine, was on New York City’s experiment in community boards.
At ML, I've been trying to figure out how to make my interest in local news sustainable. If Mission Local is a model, the answer might be that you - the readers - reward steady and smart content. As a thank you for that support we work every day to make our content even better.
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