On Monday, the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts and Culture was filled with children doing flips, turning cartwheels or dancing salsa to prepare for shows on Thursday and Friday.
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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is very sad the latinos we dont support this kind of program the could keep our children out from the streets and invest for a better future this is a such a good program for kids and also for adults, keep up the good work jose . and if i could be any help am wiy u guys thanks.