The Mission Local crew getting ready for their first live BFF broadcast at the Secret Alley.

Mission Local has a long tradition of sharing news and commentary via audio (see archive of our audio series Listen Local in sidebar). But now, we’re pleased to be partnering with the good people at BFF.fm to bring you a new iteration of Listen Local: a biweekly news talk show. Every other week we’ll discuss a topic or two of particular interest to the Mission District. We’ll analyze and debate the most important Mission-related news of the week. We may even have special guests!

In our first show, recorded Thursday, we dig into the housing situation in the Mission, what big plans are in the pipeline and why people are opposed to them. (Keep in mind this was before the Planning Commission approved 490 South Van Ness and the Plaza 16 Coalition took the streets Saturday). We also talked about podcasting itself. Check it out here:

To hear our next episode live on the air, tune into BFF.fm here, on Thursday, October 15th at 9:30 a.m..

Recorded live Thursday October 2, 2014 at BFF.fm’s Secret Alley studio. Intro music by La Plebe. Outro music by Kevin McLeod.

What should we talk about next time? Who should be our first guest? Send us comments, questions, and more at tips@missionlocal.com.

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Daniel Hirsch is a freelance writer who has been living in the Mission since 2009. When he's not contributing to Mission Local, he's writing plays, working as an extra for HBO, and/or walking to the top of Bernal Hill.

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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