Editorial

Editorial: We ask Mayor Lurie and Supervisor Sauter to get involved in running San Francisco Chinatown night markets for all businesses
San Francisco Chinatown is not only the treasure of the city for economy, history and culture, but also historical for the global Chinese community as it is the oldest Chinatown in the United States. While many Chinatowns across the nation have been shrinking in recent years, Wind Newspaper calls for newly-inaugurated Mayor Daniel Lurie and District 3 Supervisor Danny Sauter to continue supporting the Night Market model and to transform the project by bringing in a fair and open process for all vendors as well as revitalization to help San Francisco Chinatown survive and thrive.
Since the COVID pandemic began in early 2020, the news media outlets, in particular the printed media and smaller newspapers focusing on local journalism, are fading in a faster pace due to the rising cost of printing, staffing and losing more of their advertising revenues. It is good to see more local, state and federal lawmakers trying to save local journalism through legislation. AB 886 introduced by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) is one of those legislations.
While we are still celebrating Wind Newspaper's second anniversary since September 1, 2020 of serving the San Francisco Chinese community in both English and Chinese languages in print and online for free, we are very honored to be designated as the only news publication to reach out to the Chinese community citywide for the City and County of San Francisco.
Again, a journalist in San Francisco has been personally attacked because of his news reports lately. Joe Eskenazi, an award winning journalist and Columnist/Managing Editor of Mission Local, was referred to as "Joe EskeNAZI" by Leanna Louie, a Chinese American candidate who runs for District 4 (Sunset District) Supervisor in the upcoming November election.
***Corrections: An earlier version of this editorial, published July 12, 2022, incorrectly reported that Sing Tao Daily didn't submit its application for San Francisco Outreach advertising. In fact, Sing Tao Daily submitted its application. This version has been corrected and updated the information related to the factual error. ***
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