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.
Interesting film from the San Francisco Arts Commission on the benefits of putting up a mural. This one is about a wall near 6th and Bryant at 65 Oak Grove.
The muralist says they’ve found you have to add letters as well as art. The owner of the building talks about painting over taggers endlessly before deciding to go with StreetSmARTS.
How to apply and information for the program is here.
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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