Joe Rivano Barros: Mission Local’s Growth Across San Francisco

Mission Local is a bilingual local independent media site that was launched in 2008 to cover the
under-served Mission District with “hyper local” reporting on topics not covered by corporate
media. It has recently expanded its scope to the Bayview, Tenderloin, Richmond and Sunset
neighborhoods It writes stories that are in-depth, multi-faceted, and often issue-oriented. It has
covered topics of interest to the Latino community such as gentrification. In this talk we will hear
about recent stories relating to city government and money in elections.

Joe Rivano Barros is the Executive Editor at Mission Local. He is an award-winning journalist
whose coverage focuses on politics, campaign finance, Silicon Valley, and criminal justice. He
received a B.A. at Stanford University for political science in 2014. He was born in Sweden,
grew up in Chile, and moved to Oakland when he was eight. You can reach him on Signal
@jrivanob.99.