Journalism as a public good has always been an exception
Misdiagnosing journalism’s collapse means we’ve been mourning a myth and ignoring the radical legacy — and future — of people-powered media.
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Meeting community information needs can build community power
How movement journalism develops local networks of trust and connection, even before disaster strikes.
Without New Voices legislation, we risk igniting an epidemic of silence among U.S. student journalists
Defunding and devaluing public media is a top-down erosion of truth-telling that undercuts efforts to strengthen student press freedom and contributes to censorship of student journalists.
The UN called it genocide in Gaza. Will Western journalists dare to?
If the truth costs us Palestinian journalists our lives, what excuse do you have for refusing to call it by its name?
What is nonprofit news infrastructure solving for?
We need new questions to guide flourishing news ecosystems that don't treat nonprofit status as the end-all, be-all fix.
Make it make sense: movement media as political education
Even when our stories herald bad news, they can also include context and analysis that helps people make meaning of the story and figure out our role in responding.
In passionate defense of counterprogramming
Reporting on the spaces people take solace in during times of deep economic and political woe shows what different communities value.
We can resist the robots
Movement journalists don’t attempt to connect to people in order to sell to them, but view this connection as a mission unto itself.
Stories are an ‘arrow in a quiver’
How movement journalists share strategy and inspire action.
How does a story go from ‘spreading awareness’ to making concrete change?
Movement journalism needs a theory of change in order to affect policy and practice.
Meeting community information needs can build community power
How movement journalism develops local networks of trust and connection, even before disaster strikes.
Without New Voices legislation, we risk igniting an epidemic of silence among U.S. student journalists
Defunding and devaluing public media is a top-down erosion of truth-telling that undercuts efforts to strengthen student press freedom and contributes to censorship of student journalists.
The UN called it genocide in Gaza. Will Western journalists dare to?
If the truth costs us Palestinian journalists our lives, what excuse do you have for refusing to call it by its name?
What is nonprofit news infrastructure solving for?
We need new questions to guide flourishing news ecosystems that don't treat nonprofit status as the end-all, be-all fix.
Make it make sense: movement media as political education
Even when our stories herald bad news, they can also include context and analysis that helps people make meaning of the story and figure out our role in responding.
In passionate defense of counterprogramming
Reporting on the spaces people take solace in during times of deep economic and political woe shows what different communities value.
We can resist the robots
Movement journalists don’t attempt to connect to people in order to sell to them, but view this connection as a mission unto itself.
Stories are an ‘arrow in a quiver’
How movement journalists share strategy and inspire action.