Irrational optimism and the rebuilding of local journalism
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Irrational optimism and the rebuilding of local journalism
In this context, the mission of local news and information takes on an entirely new dimension. Instead of holding it responsible for all civic failures, the local news site becomes a portal to projects.
Tal Shachar • Main Street Bets
I had spent the past 40 years as a journalist and ended my career believing as strongly as ever that reliable, unpolluted information is as necessary to a community as a legal system, an army or a police force.
Alan Rusbridger • Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
I think there’s an opportunity to create something very substantial here in Manchester: a company that revives local journalism across the country and connects people via storytelling , a means of human communication that goes back much longer than the history of newspapers. As the popularity of American magazine-style journalism shows, people pref... See more
Joshi Herrmann • Irrational optimism and the rebuilding of local journalism
The economy is interconnected. There are a lot of reasons newspapers have died off. Some were out of their control. I imagine a future where there are plenty of local publications that serve their communities with smart reporting, structured data sets around important issues and great ad products for marketers.
Jacob Cohen Donnelly • A Deeper Dive Into What Really Damaged Newspapers - A Media Operator
In traditional journalism, there are strong incentives to act maliciously. Journalists are incentivized to optimize for views and clicks. The answer is not to reform the industry. We can change media through radical decentralization. Everyone becomes a journalist. Each person writes about their local issues or areas of expertise
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Journalism is facing both a trust crisis and a sustainability crisis. Membership answers to both.
Ariel Zirulnick • Membership Handbook
Journalists no longer have a near-monopoly on news and the means of distribution. The vertical world is gone for ever. Journalists no longer stand on a platform above their readers. They need to find a new voice. They have to regain trust. Journalism has to rethink its methods; reconfigure its relationship with the new kaleidoscope of other voices.
... See moreAlan Rusbridger • Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
If we want independent and quality editorial to maintain a vital place in our democracy, we have to imagine a new set of relationships between platforms, editorial, marketers and audiences. A promising innovation is already in place at one platform: Twitter.