The Distance Between Us, A Photo By Mimi Chakarova

Mission Loc@l Heroes

On their own — without having to interrupt service — they’ve either clicked here to DONATE online or have sent nice checks to Mission Loc@l at 400 Treat Avenue, I, San Francisco, CA 94110.

Join the team! Support Mission Loc@l now.

Carlisle Hayworth
Jennifer Fernandez
Margaret and Michael Brown
Felisa Preskill and Zachary Scholz
Martin Chavez
Geraldine Chavez
David Hecht
Paula Tejeda
Rahul Young and Meg Pearson
Martin Steinman

And the list grows this morning, Jan. 12: 

Merle and Leslie Rabine
The Patty Foresman Foundation via Baylor Chapman

They’ve done it! You can, too.

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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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