Front page, at 6:48 p.m. Monday, January 27th.

What I like about Mission Local is how varied our front page can be including Monday, a guide to encryption as well as the story of a 72-year-old immigrant who has long been selling newspapers on Valencia and Mission Streets. The front page is like the Mission – diverse to a wonderful extreme.

Getting these stories to you takes a good bit of leg work and legs cost money.  If you like what you read and want Mission Local to stay around, please think about donating.  Yes, a cup of coffee if that’s what you can manage, but if all of our loyal readers chipped in with $120 a year, we would be solvent.

Help us get there.   Thank you!

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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