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Lydia Chávez
KQED was out on the ride last night and posted a video as well as a short story on the ride.
The Ride of Silence, San Francisco’s fifth, has spread across the world since it began in Texas in 2003. In San Francisco, a total of 25 pedestrians and bicyclists were hit and killed by drivers in 2013, according to the SFMTA, the highest number since 2007. READ THE WHOLE STORY AND SEE THE VIDEO HERE.
Founder/Executive Editor. I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019 when I retired. 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 there.
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.
Right now I'm trying to figure out how you make that long-held interest in local news sustainable. The answer continues to elude me.
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