We’ve done it again: Mission Local took home a “general excellence” award from the Online News Association on Friday at a ceremony in Atlanta, Georgia, the second time in three years we’ve been honored with the national prize.
We were among some of the top newsrooms in the country: the Boston Globe, ProPublica, and the Markup also took home general excellence awards in their size categories.
Judges were particularly impressed with our focus on data and visual journalism, our ongoing election coverage, and our commitment to training young reporters.
We described ourselves as “San Francisco’s pluckiest outlet,” and judges agreed.
Our submission included:
- BigMoneySF, a Herculean undertaking reviewing hundreds of campaign finance filings, tax documents, news articles, and more to show an interrelated network of wealthy donors and pressure groups shaping San Francisco politics
- Reporting on the 2023 Dolores Park hill bomb, the largest mass arrest of teenagers in years including our visual timeline of the events that day
- A breakdown of the budget, plus a column by Joe Eskenazi on just how big this city’s toilet-paper spending can be
- A fun interactive by our reporter Xueer Lu in which readers could fill out a ballot to see just how much was being spent to influence their vote
Our much-missed data reporter, Will Jarrett, has his fingerprints all over this entry, and this award is a testament to the impressive data work he began at Mission Local and that we’ve built on.
You can read more about our work for the Online Journalism Awards here.
“This is another reminder that a small and savvy newsroom can do superb work,” said Executive Editor Lydia Chavez. “As a small nonprofit, we have consistently outreported much larger competitors with multimillion-dollar budgets. And we will continue to do so, serving the Mission District, San Francisco, and our readers.”
As always, none of this is possible without your support. Please consider donating to keep Mission Local running.
CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU STELLAR, INDY MISSION LOCAL!! Now everybody be sure to make a donation to support the amazing work and journalism that all of you real ones do. Thank you
Mission Local.
Pondering,
You’re like the Grateful Dead’s ole slogan …
“It’s not that they’re the best at what they do.
It’s that they’re the only ones who do what they do.”
Or, maybe Adachi’s Public Defender’s Office.
Yeah, that’s better.
Matt was gone from there for 6 or 7 years after spending about a decade I believe there and he said he couldn’t believe the difference..
They do over 20,000 cases a year with 100 lawyers and they win most of the time.
In most of the country if you’re too poor for a lawyer and end up with a Public Defender you’re screwed but in San Francisco you’re being represented by one of the best Law Firms of a hundred and pocket change lawyers in the country.
Like Mission Local, graduates of the most prestigious schools with the most varied of personal life and career paths with some SF weirdness to sauce up story lines …
Can you tell I’m stoned as I study the Award ?
You guys are the greatest and deserve everything.
Go Niners !!
What a gigantic and thoroughly well-earned prize to Mission Local. This paper is unique, real, and the only outlet to trust on local issues. I am particularly pleased you submitted Joe Rivano Berros’ Dolores Park Hill Bomb work, which so vividly conveyed the horrors of that police siege. I felt like I was there! felicidades.
CONGRATULATIONS! Thank you for your incredible work.
Mission Local, one of my favorite-ist “rags” ever – super congrats!!
Congratulations Mission Local!. Well deserved.