It was a generally excellent weekend for Mission Local, as our newsroom took home top honors for “General Excellence” at Sunday night’s California Journalism Awards.
It was Mission Local’s focus on the forthcoming election that earned it the top spot in its division.
“Mission Local’s supervisor election coverage is unrivaled in this competition,” wrote the judges at the California News Publishers Association. “Neil Ballard’s fresh illustrations, the reporting teams’ commitment to a weekly question for each candidate and a campaign funding tracker that’s up to date. Mission Local calls this Meet the Candidate, I’d call it outstanding election coverage.”
This was one of two top honors bestowed upon Mission Local. The other was a first-place finish in the column category for Joe Eskenazi. “Easily best writing in the competition,” the judges wrote and drew particular attention to Eskenazi’s April 7 column, “Bob Lee deserved better than to be killed — and then co-opted in death.”
Eskenazi also received the second-place award for a second set of columns on the mayor and the city.
Mission Local also received a second-place award in the breaking news category, for Joe Rivano Barros’ impressively complete coverage of the police mass arrest of teens at the July 2023 Dolores Park Hill Bomb.
Data maven Will Jarrett’s interactive tour-de-force on $70 million worth of law-enforcement settlements received a third-place nod with a “special shout-out to the graphics” by Jarrett and the illustrations by Molly Oleson and Pnina Ramati.
And, rounding things out, Mission Local also received a fourth-place notice in the breaking news category for coverage of the shooting of Banko Brown.
“Mission Local continues to punch above its weight,” said managing editor Joe Eskenazi. “We’d like to thank our wonderful staff, all the readers, and the donors to our nonprofit newsroom who literally make this possible. Onward and upward.”
Congratulations! Thank you for all your hard work.
Super congrats to all!
And the stellar volunteers!! 😉
You deserve it!
Big congrats for very well deserved awards!
Yay. Well deserved accolades for the best news coverage for San Francisco.
Bravo, Mission Local! Keep up your excellent journalism.
Congratulations! I can skip a few days of the Chronicle, but Mission Local and 48 Hills are daily check-ins.
My Home Team !!
You’re like the Grateful Dead described themselves once:
“It’s not that we’re the best at what we do …
it’s that we’re the only ones who do what we do.”
They got it right in your Cross the Board Excellence.
And, you even have a little Chat Room where it’s OK to smoke Pot.
Getting a ‘D-9’ tattoo and considering adding your initials to confuse coroners.
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Ha! I nailed it on my campaign website way before this award. D5campaign.com. I love your election coverage so much, I say so on the front page and beyonnd.