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Author Archives: Lydia Chávez

Founder/Executive Editor. I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019 when I retired. 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 there.

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.

Right now I'm trying to figure out how you make that long-held interest in local news sustainable. The answer continues to elude me.

lydia.chavez@missionlocal.com
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SF will preview couture and off-the-shelf trash bin models in July

by Lydia Chávez May 26, 2022May 27, 2022
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Election 2022: Campos concedes as Haney builds insurmountable lead

by Joe Eskenazi, Lydia Chávez, Will Jarrett, Eleni Balakrishnan and Madison Alvarado April 19, 2022April 20, 2022
Posted inBusiness

Upstart: Funding fantasies, reality and how about that redistricting fiasco? 

by Lydia Chávez April 14, 2022April 15, 2022
Posted inGovernment

Redistricting chair told others he felt mayor’s pressure on maps

by Will Jarrett, Lydia Chávez and Joe Eskenazi April 13, 2022April 15, 2022
Posted inBusiness

Upstart: 1,000 new donors; we want you!

by Lydia Chávez April 5, 2022April 6, 2022
Posted inGovernment

Preliminary plan moves Tenderloin into District 5

by Will Jarrett and Lydia Chávez March 29, 2022April 12, 2022
Posted inSNAPS

Marilyn on Mission

by Lydia Chávez March 17, 2022March 17, 2022
Posted inTrouble

Updated: Victim identified in homicide on Mission Street

by Annika Hom and Lydia Chávez March 3, 2022March 4, 2022
Posted inTrouble

Shooting at 23rd and San Jose Avenue (update)

by Lydia Chávez February 18, 2022February 21, 2022
Posted inElection Coverage

Election 2022: Final Tuesday reporting and analysis

by Joe Eskenazi, Lydia Chávez, Yujie Zhou, Eleni Balakrishnan, Annika Hom and Will Jarrett February 15, 2022February 16, 2022
Posted inLocal History

Quiz #10: Quizzical love

by Will Jarrett and Lydia Chávez February 14, 2022February 11, 2022
Posted inSNAPS

Happy birthday!

by Lydia Chávez February 12, 2022February 11, 2022
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Slanted Door’s Charles Phan returns to the Mission with sandwiches (update)

by Lydia Chávez February 4, 2022February 4, 2022
Posted inSNAPS

Connecting

by Lydia Chávez February 2, 2022February 2, 2022
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Palm beauties

by Lydia Chávez January 4, 2022January 2, 2022

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