Damon KiesowFeb 10, 2023

I don't think Heather is on Mastodon yet to tag, but this quote is on fire:

“I don’t really care about journalism, the industry that has a product for sale. That’s not what I care about saving or fixing. I care about journalism, a service to the public that requires quality news and information in order to navigate their lives. To me, that’s the only real journalism.”

https://medium.com/centerforcooperativemedia/q-a-heather-bryant-on-how-collaboration-empowers-small-local-news-startups-29f9f1641409

Q&A: Heather Bryant on how collaboration empowers small local news startups

Heather Bryant is the interim executive director for Tiny News Collective, an organization that helps local news founders start publications and get them off the ground. Tiny News provides training…

Center for Cooperative Media
Show threadDavid W. JonesFeb 11, 2023
@dkiesow And so I think that all journalism should be done by community-owned co-ops, not for-profit entities.
Show threadDamon Kiesow
@dancingtreefrog having many many more locally owned and non-profit newsrooms would work for me.
Feb 11, 2023 at 12:48amWeb
Show threadDavid W. JonesFeb 11, 2023
@dkiesow
We have a local non-profit news operation here, Honolulu Civil Beat: https://www.civilbeat.org/about/
Not community-owned, but community-supported investigative reporting.
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Honolulu Civil Beat is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt news organization dedicated to cultivating an informed body of citizens, all striving to make Hawaii a better place to live. We achieve this through investigative and watchdog journalism, in-depth enterprise reporting, analysis and commentary that gives readers a broad view on issues of importance to our community. Entrepreneur […]

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