So, it’s 7:36 a.m., 59° and going about a degree higher. Weather.com says no more rain, but looking outside, I wouldn’t bet on it.

Can’t believe we missed the news about JR, the Parisian guerilla artist known for his massive photographs pasted on places likely to create the most discussion or reaction.

The anonymous artist won a $100,000 TED award (past winners: Bono, Jamie Oliver), and the TED site has a wonderful film of his work.

His site and portfolio are here.


OK, that’s kind of enough to take in this morning.

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.

As founder and an editor 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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