Mission Local, SF

We're in the middle of end-of-year fundraising, & we need your help. We've got *$65,000* in matching funds through Dec. 31, meaning any gift made today is *doubled.* Please consider supporting nonprofit, independent news right here in San Francisco. https://lnkd.in/gnfe5PQe

And we're thrilled and excited to be a part of this!

A BIG congratulations to our board chair Frances Dinkelspiel on winning a Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism Alumni Award! Frances, who co-founded Cityside across the Bay, joined us earlier this year—an already transformative addition. Just this week, she helped us facilitate a Mission Local event with former Washington Post editor Marty Barton—the first of many such to come. Onwards and upwards. https://lnkd.in/gby_k83q

It's Election Day, and this is a reminder that Mission Local has been tracking all the candidate races, ballot measures, campaign finance, and more for months. All our reporting is on our elections dashboard—the most complete set of election information in San Francisco: https://lnkd.in/g-SvmrGH

Meeting readers where they are at. Mission Local will deliver 10k print editions in Spanish and 10k in Chinese. The editions feature our election coverage and we are dropping it today because voting starts today in San Francisco.

We're *thrilled* to announce that we've won a general excellence award from the Online News Association — the second time we've won this award in just three years! Our series into big-money spending in San Francisco politics, ongoing election coverage, and impressive data visual journalism were all part of our submission. And judges specifically cited our commitment to training young reporters. We're excited our work was recognized, and we couldn't do it without all our readers. https://lnkd.in/g4e7pWvN

We're ~thrilled~ to be on this list of nonprofits receiving #LocalImpactGrants from the NBCUniversal Foundation, alongside some truly, truly great company. If you don't already know, Mission Local is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, & all your donations are tax-deductible: https://lnkd.in/gFsfV-iB Onwards and upwards. https://lnkd.in/eZxj-Jw9

Delighted to be featured in the NYT alongside other very talented San Francisco newsrooms. Nonprofit news can work. It’s given us a sustainable business model, a robust intern program, & a growing, award-winning staff. Onwards. https://lnkd.in/gSzz-8Cp

Last month, Mission Local won *six* state-wide accolades! We're late to celebrating ourselves, but: We took the No. 1 spot for both commentary and *general excellence* in our size category at the California Journalism Awards with the California News Publishers Association. The judges wrote: “Mission Local’s supervisor election coverage is unrivaled in this competition." In total, the judges gave us six awards, including nods for our coverage of the Dolores Park hill bomb, San Francisco’s $70 million in law enforcement settlements, and the shooting death of Banko Brown outside a mid-Market Walgreens. https://lnkd.in/ghGnebxH

Mission Local is a finalist for yet another national award: General excellence by the Online News Association, alongside some heavy hitters. The #OJA24 nomination is our second for general excellence—we won in 2022—for "San Francisco’s pluckiest outlet." https://lnkd.in/gBGW5Vms