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Lydia Chávez
SF Gate writes today about the sad passing of Samuel Goldman, a Mission High Graduate, and inspiring mentor to thousands of journalism students. He died on Tuesday at the age of 87.
Mr. Goldman’s influence on the field of journalism in San Francisco can best be described with the one word he taught his students never to use: unique.
“Ye wildest journalism teacher and PR man in the West,” as he called himself, began teaching English and history at Galileo High School in 1958. READ THE FULL PIECE
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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