Sumter TisdaleFeb 11, 2023
Damon Kiesow

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
Feb 10, 2023 at 6:09pmWeb
Show threadZZ BottomFeb 10, 2023
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Show threadVoronFeb 10, 2023
@dkiesow a person’s headshot with the words “collaborator” underneath may not send the message you think it does
Show threadDamon KiesowFeb 10, 2023
@voron Context counts.
Show threadVoronFeb 10, 2023
@dkiesow Yup, my context, as will be many others is scrolling through a feed and having a pic catch my eye
Show threadDamon KiesowFeb 10, 2023
@voron Which is a fun thing about context collapse - you can never fully guard against it, unfortunately.
Show threadinput.translationFeb 10, 2023

@dkiesow

It's "a thing made of plastic and metal that you might pay for" versus "a functional can opener."

Show threadJJ PetersonFeb 10, 2023
@dkiesow The industry tells Democrats what they can learn from DeSantis, as per the CEO; the service holds DeSantis accountable for his anti-democratic actions as per the Constitution.
Show threadZacFeb 10, 2023
@dkiesow You know you are a history student when you see the word "collaborator" across a photo and think that it is a *very* bad thing
Show threadDamon KiesowFeb 10, 2023
@lolzac Heh. Context is everything.
Show threadIAmPawsFeb 10, 2023
@dkiesow 100% agree.
Show threadWilliam RobisonFeb 10, 2023
@dkiesow more and more I think we need some sort of Public Supported Journalism (PSJ). Kinda like Public Broadcasting. The issue in the short term is that like PBS and NPR it will need federal or state government seed money to get started. At the moment that's ot politically possible.
Show threadDamon KiesowFeb 10, 2023
@William_Robison Had that exact discussion with someone yesterday.
Show threadWilliam RobisonFeb 10, 2023
@dkiesow the idea have been floating around for 10 or 20 years. There had been talk about the LA Times moving to a PSJ model back when the Chicago Tribune was talking about shutting it down.
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 KiesowFeb 11, 2023
@dancingtreefrog having many many more locally owned and non-profit newsrooms would work for me.
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.
About Civil Beat

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 […]

Honolulu Civil Beat
Show threadPólóFeb 11, 2023

@dkiesow

YES, YES, YES.