Screenshot from OnPublico.

We have to catch up and write a fuller piece, but there is another place to check for news these days. It is OnPublico, a venture headed by three Spanish entrepreneurs — two of them Mission residents — who have a background in journalism. It is definitely worth checking out.

Here’s a small explanation from their website:

Here, citizens report and update the news by taking pictures and videos with their phones. Short captions and tags are added to provide additional detail.

At Onpublico all news matters and we will not tell you what to report. Individuals and the Onpublico community define what is and isn’t newsworthy. If you witness an event that is interesting, odd, or astonishing in any way, share it. We take no stance on stories but will remove/edit offensive or inaccurate content.

Our goal is to create a public and open space where people work together to keep each other aware of what’s happening around them as it’s happening. GO TO THE SITE.

 

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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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