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1/This study suggests that global use of social media over time leads to global sorting into just two primary camps, or worldviews. If their hypothesis is correct, it has profound implications for the world in the coming years.
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Joshi Herrmann • Irrational optimism and the rebuilding of local journalism
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tandfonline.com"Our work is the most valuable where we're creating a discourse that isn't just informing people, but actually getting them involved with the creation of good information — because they value good information themselves and are part of a community that values that," he said.
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niemanlab.orgIntroduction — Invisible Institute
invisible.institutenonprofit journalism working to ‘enhance the capacity of citizens to hold public institutions accountable’
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... See more
Joshi Herrmann • Irrational optimism and the rebuilding of local journalism

Alt business model for local news: government provides a voucher, then each person can give it to a local news org they find valuable. Helps create public funding for journalism, but avoid government intervention in the content itself
News Relay Network
newsrelaynetwork.org“a newsroom that empowers its audience” - in the Tenderloin, SF, CA