Only Laura will get the humor in being a SNAP, and this post is for her. Many of you have met Laura Wenus, the young woman who came to Mission Local three years ago and stayed.
She is an incredible journalist who is now off to work in radio at KALW. They are lucky to get her, and we will miss her sorely. And no, Laura, you cannot take this post down.
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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We will miss your sunny face in the store! Thank you for all your insightful articles! Please visit and best of luck from The Cuckoo! Xo
Thank you Laura and good luck at KALW. And thank you to Mission Local for everything you do to document news in the neighborhood.
Nooooooooo! Laura, we need you! I’m from two generations of journalists, and yours is some of the best reporting I’ve seen anywhere.
That is high praise. Thank you Elizabeth!
Bye Laura! Incentive for me to check out KALW again.
Laura, what will we do without you? Best of luck at KALW!