Mission Loc@l collaborated with UC Berkeley’s CAGE Lab to produce 22 11×17 maps of the Mission District. We’ve bound them so that you can easily take out your favorites and put them on the wall. The cost is $25, with all proceeds going to support Mission Loc@l’s reporting projects. You can buy one here.
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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The maps are pretty, and if that’s all you’re going for, then it’s probably ok to continue with the sideways orientation. Otherwise, these maps are confusing and useless.
is there another way to purchase this? I’ve tried several times and there seems to be something wrong with the site?
Alix: Yes, so sorry about this and thank you for being interested. send us an e-mail at missionlocal@gmail and we can arrange payment and ship it off to you.
Best, Lydia