I’ve been working to make Mission Local sustainable since the summer of 2014. It is not, but you could make it so.

We need more members: 800 of you would do it, which should not be difficult. We have three times that in regular, loyal readers. So, if you can, please step up. I get putting things off — I do that myself — but if you value reporting on your neighborhood, now is the time to support it.

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All of the membership money goes to pay young reporters or freelancers — many of them from the neighborhood.

If you have a business, there is no better membership deal in town. For you, join here.

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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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  1. Have you tried using Patreon? I would do a few dollars monthly but not any of the options on your site, I don’t really read it that much

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