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Who are the candidates, what do they think and what neighborhoods count most in terms of votes? All this and more.
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Presentation reported and produced by Judith Joffe-Block and Jordan Conn. Audio by Allison Davis. Photos by Armand Emandjomeh and Hélène Goupil. Moch N. Kurniawan contributed to reporting.
Founder/Executive Editor. I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019 when I retired. 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 there.
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.
Right now I'm trying to figure out how you make that long-held interest in local news sustainable. The answer continues to elude me.
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