This digital news platform is for everyone living and working in the San Antonio area. Regardless of your background or lifestyle, Focus On San Antonio aims to inform you in a balanced, factual and comprehensive way. The hope is that you will go away having read something useful, educational or even fun.
As you see the category menu and get a feel for this website, Focus On San Antonio covers many topics that are relevant to locals in one way or another. This includes city and county governmental happenings and politics, education, roads and mass transit, public health and fitness, business moves, land development, different types of technology, arts, culture, culinary updates, and a calendar to which you can submit listings of public events for free.
I want to emphasize news coverage of local governments and politics, and not just San Antonio or Bexar County. A range of smaller communities, such as Alamo Heights, Balcones Heights, Boerne, Cibolo, Converse, Hollywood Park, New Braunfels, Schertz and Somerset, will be covered. The same goes for news from Comal, Guadalupe and Kendall counties.
Why? I have nearly 30 years of professional journalism experience, having worked for several San Antonio-based news publications. Much of my experience has been reporting and editing news from area suburbs and towns, many of which are growing.
Yet, a majority of those communities have been underserved and are worthy of objective coverage, whether it be local budgets and taxes, business openings and other transactions, public and private education, upcoming residential and commercial developments, public safety, road construction updates, and civic activities.
The same approach in coverage will be applied to established and up-and-coming neighborhoods in San Antonio proper.
Focus On San Antonio is not meant to replace or compete with existing local news outlets, but rather help to publicize vital local news and events that may otherwise go uncovered, undercovered, or promoted without further context.
This is an effort to help ensure the local residents are better informed on what is happening in their neighborhood and how it affects them and the wider community. Additionally, Focus On San Antonio will address how federal and state happenings may impact readers.
I hope you will enjoy Focus On San Antonio, find it useful – and even advertise with this for-profit enterprise. Have a question, suggestion, comment, story idea, press release or an advertising query? Please feel free to contact me at edmond@focusonsanantonio.com and eortiz@journalist.com.
Thanks for checking out Focus On San Antonio and for spreading the word.