Mission Local distributes 20K Spanish- and Chinese-language newspapers

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This year, we committed to delivering the most in-depth local election coverage to as many San Franciscans as possible. This week, we continued to make good on that promise. 

Our small but mighty team spent two days distributing 20,000 free print newspapers with the best of our election coverage to reach voters who might otherwise not be able to access it. We printed 10,000 copies in Spanish and 10,000 copies in traditional Chinese.  

Distributing thousands of copies in two days was no small task. It took three U-Haul vans, two dollies, a car, a cart and a lot of heavy lifting. We left copies at libraries, cafes and restaurants, shopping malls, hospitals, senior centers, San Francisco State University and City College of San Francisco. We even braved the Fell Street DMV waiting room. 

Over the course of three weeks, Xueer Lu, one of our reporters, compiled the best of our coverage on the mayor’s race, supervisor races, and campaign finance coverage into a 24-page color printout. The featured articles were translated into Spanish by Elvía Rodriguez and Andrea Valencia, and into Chinese by Rongcheng Zhang and Lu.The entire operation was overseen by Lydia Chávez.

Here’s a digital copy of the newspaper, in Spanish and Chinese. Of course, all our election coverage is available in English, Spanish and Chinese on our dashboard. 

Here’s our newspaper distribution in photos: