Most read Mission Local stories of 2023
It's your most popular Mission Local stories of the year! Photo montage by Junyao Yang

Mission Local’s scoop on the arrest of Nima Momeni on charges of murdering Bob Lee broke news — and nearly broke this site. It racked up more than 1 million page views, and did most of that in a matter of days. For a little while there, our internal analytics trackers resembled the old Comiskey Park exploding scoreboard.

So, that happened. But that’s not all that happened: Mission Local produced a number of highly popular stories — and, thankfully, none of them involved cute animals or lingerie or cute animals in lingerie. Our most-read articles are a pretty good reflection of what we do: breaking stories, on-the-ground reporting and writing with a bit of panache.

We hope you enjoy them (again). Onward to 2024.

The most-read Mission Local stories of 2023:

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Managing Editor/Columnist. Joe was born in San Francisco, raised in the Bay Area, and attended U.C. Berkeley. He never left.

“Your humble narrator” was a writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015, and a senior editor at San Francisco Magazine from 2015 to 2017. You may also have read his work in the Guardian (U.S. and U.K.); San Francisco Public Press; San Francisco Chronicle; San Francisco Examiner; Dallas Morning News; and elsewhere.

He resides in the Excelsior with his wife and three (!) kids, 4.3 miles from his birthplace and 5,474 from hers.

The Northern California branch of the Society of Professional Journalists named Eskenazi the 2019 Journalist of the Year.

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  1. When Joe dropped the first story questioning the narrative days into the Bob Lee brouhaha, I couldn’t help but wonder if he had an inside track. When he days later – in the early hours – broke the story of the arrest, I felt that question had been answered.

    That’s just a hunch, but I do know it was amazing to see ML expose so many as fools and trolls. Nicely played.

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