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But “when it comes to quality information that affects what they’re doing and how to feed their families,” Bair said, “people are hungry for that.”

In thinking about my audience – what do I want them to know? What opportunities for self advocacy are coming or upcoming? What narratives am I interested in unsettling? What information is my audience most craving and/or lacking?

Digging in order to kind of show who’s accountable, show how a system failed and the hope or intended outcome is often, for a legislator – someone with some amount of policy making power – to read it, notice it and create some policy that stops the harm. In the case of some individual actor doing something wrong, [the hope is] they lose their... See more

For newsrooms and funders, the takeaway is equally clear: this is a workable template: A creator with community trust + a newsroom with editorial rigor = journalism that reaches further and lands deeper.

making journalism more of an exchange – a partnership between community and journalism so that people don't feel like they're outside of it, that it's not extractive

I see publishing brands scrambling to get out of the ads on pages business models of publishing. Nobody knows what’s coming, of course, only it’s safe to say, we are entering into a period of the job of publishing brands will increasingly shift to convening.

I’ve been tracking a new North Star metric for The Rebooting. It’s AAR, or audience... See more

Anyone at an AI company who stops to think for half a second should be able to recognize they have a vampiric relationship with the commons. While they rely on these repositories for their sustenance, their adversarial and disrespectful relationships with creators reduce the incentives for anyone to make their work publicly available going forward... See more