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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Lydia, “In Case Your…..” should read, “In Case You’re….”
Yes many of you caught this. I did not. So thank you! Lydia
*you’re 🙁
Don’t want to be a pedant but you’re.
Yes “..a picture is worth a thousand words” but the misspelling in the header distracts from the photo- greatly! I’m an immigrant and English is my second language but I believe you intended “you’re” instead of “your”, “you’re” being a contraction of “you are”. Let’s have some proofreading please! The Local is widely read and I count on it for good, solid reporting. Thank you.
Exactly!! My first thought were “professor of what?!
Well, I guess we all make mistakes. That was a dumb one.