We often hear sirens in the Mission District and readers will ask what’s going on. That happened today around 10:45 a.m. Sirens, blaring, one rescue car and a second bigger looking van from the San Francisco Fire Department sped toward Capp Street. As is so often the case, it was an emergency call. Someone inside a small house on Capp Street was ill and needed attention. We hope the patient feels better soon.
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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