At about 7 p.m. the group of volunteers and staff filling District Nine candidate David Campos’ headquarters was upbeat and pleased the way election day had gone, but they were in no mood to talk to reporters from MissionLoc@l. Campos called our site’s story on the District Nine debate “one-sided” and said that we had repeated lies from Eric Quezada’s campaign web site. For her part, campaign manager Linnette Peralta Haynes said, “We’re in the homestretch…We’re looking forward to when David Campos is district supervisor.”
Founder/Executive Editor. 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.
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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