You don’t need to be a particularly close reader to know that, for some time now, Mission Local has grown beyond the Mission District. We’ve been telling citywide stories and dipping our toes into neighborhood coverage in more and more corners of San Francisco.
We’re now making it official.
Mission Local is launching landing pages for five neighborhoods where we have dedicated beat coverage — the Tenderloin, Bayview, the Sunset, the Richmond, and the Mission. They went live this morning, with all neighborhood news in one convenient place, plus resource pages for each neighborhood.
You can see each of those landing pages below.
We’ve also slightly redesigned the homepage to make it cleaner, and highlight our neighborhood coverage.
We’re giving four of our reporters neighborhood-area beats, and we want you to rely on us for all news, big and small, in these places.
- Eleni Balakrishnan will cover every inch of the Tenderloin. She’ll cover hard news (like the neighborhood losing 450 shelter beds, which she broke yesterday), dive into trends (like the rise in Tenderloin dog bites) and write the more lighthearted stories too (like telling the tale of the neighborhood’s only single-family home).
- Marina Newman covers Bayview-Hunters Point, and she’s had great success following up on RV dwellers navigating new city rules, exploring the challenges with the area’s post-pandemic recovery and diving deep into the Shipyard and its long and problematic history.
- Oscar Palma is our reporter for the Mission District, where he’s been covering street vending in and out, paying close attention to business openings and closings and following every twist and turn of the Kit Kat-Waymo tragedy, among other things.
- Junyao Yang will do the same for the Richmond and the Sunset, the city’s Westside, where she’s been covering the District 4 race and asking supervisor candidates weekly questions, doing deep dives into streetscapes and publishing features like her piece on the roller-skating engineer who’s been building benches across town.
We’re also doing the following in each neighborhood:
- Dedicating a rotating cast of interns to each neighborhood to supplement our beat reporters.
- Launching neighborhood newsletters — you can sign up for those here, or at your neighborhood landing page. Those will be sent every two weeks, for now, and they’ll cover the latest goings-on in your backyard.
- A twice-monthly “buzz” column of all that’s new in each neighborhood’s commercial corridors. (You can see the latest Tenderloin Buzz here.)
San Francisco is a city of neighborhoods, and we think it deserves newsrooms that double down on those communities. Mission Local will always be local.
We’ll always be here — and we’ll always be free — for this city. Thanks for supporting us all these years.