Over the next couple of weeks, Mission Local will return to earlier stories to follow up on what happened to people and places that we reported on during the first month of the pandemic. But there’s nothing like the full experience of revisiting the headlines of a year.
As the year progresses, you can also see the increasing cases, the oversized impact on Latinx residents, and the minimal testing of that community. Ideas — like a tracking app — were promoted and then disappeared; reopening schools at first seemed possible, but then became impossible.
We’ve done stories on all of these issues and we will continue to explore the ongoing impact of the virus, but this offers a grab from the headlines experience. You can search any of these headlines and come up with a story.
Let us know what you think. Do we have it set too fast? Too slow?
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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This is powerful and fascinating. So grateful for the consistently excellent work of Mission Local during the pandemic!
Wow! Time lapse recap Live is a nice touch! Keep up the great work that you do!