Mission Local is expanding, adding dedicated neighborhood reporters across the city. We’re also launching neighborhood landing pages with the latest news and resources. You can read more about it below.
It is time to get your booster, says Dr. Carina Marquez from UCSF, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and the vaccination/booster/testing site at 24th and Capp Street.
Coming up:LitCrawl happens on Saturday night and Chuqin Zhou, our new data intern, has developed a cool interactive that will go live Saturday. It’s an experiment in trying to capture the event. Wish us luck.
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.
As founder/executive editor 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.
