sunset sky by the BART station
At 24th Street BART. Photo by Walter Mackins.

In 2022, we applied to, and received, grants from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ($100,000), the Emerson Collective ($75,000), the San Francisco Foundation ($30,000), Report for America ($25,000), the Fund for Nonprofit News at the Miami Foundation Newsmatch ($23,110), the Institute for Nonprofit News ($8,000), Lion Publishers ($6,000) and the Zitrin Foundation ($5,000).

In 2021, we received grants from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ($100,000), Newsmatch ($22,181), Craig Newmark Philanthropies ($10,000) and the Zitrin Foundation ($9,000).

In 2020, we received grants from Facebook ($5,000), Google ($5,000), Renaissance Journalism ($10,000), the Zitrin Foundation ($9,000), Craig Newmark Philanthropies ($10,000), the Chatterjee Charitable Foundation ($50,000), the Pulitzer Center ($21,000) and Newsmatch ($20,460).

In 2019, we received grants from the San Francisco Foundation ($25,000), Newsmatch ($27,900) and the Zitrin Foundation ($10,000).

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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.

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  1. Lydia: You all are the best. A must read for me along with the NYT, WSJ, LA Times, the Chron and 48 Hills. Keep up the great work. And if I can ever help I will. In any case, you have a great source in Bernal Heights me!

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