Missionlocal.org invites the community to contact us about stories that we have reported–stories that you are angry about or just want to know more about–to interview the reporter. We’ll bring our camera to film as you interview our reporters at your favorite Mission hangout. This week, Missionlocal.org editor Lydia Chávez interviews Steve Saldivar and Hélène Goupil, the two reporters who covered the recent surge in murders.
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/executive 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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