Ollanta Humala, a former colonel who lost Peru’s 2006 presidential election, narrowly won on Sunday. In the final round of voting he ran against Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of jailed former president Alberto Fujimori. Mission Loc@l was there to record the day at City College, and voters there seemed as closely divided as they were in Peru.
Humala supporters definitely owned the sidewalk around the campus where Peruvians voted all day on Sunday.
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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