1. Doing hard news in a small town (using citizen-reporters in our case) is really challenging. Our managing editor @imagineannie is astonishingly good at helping us bring hard news decoupled from simplistic good/evil tropes. But it aches.
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2. We know bringing real investigative news about/to our small city will sometimes cause pain. So our motto is "first do unnecessary harm." We ask ourselves how we can mitigate the hard news.
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3. Teenagers make awesome investigative citizen journalists. They are fearless, capable of learning and growth, don't take the word of authority, dogged, and they never accept "that's just the way it is." Plus they don't mind being paid like they're slinging ice cream.
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4. Give a town nonpartisan, meaningful news, and it's going to want more. Give it enough, and it's going to want to vote.
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5. Human nature doesn't change. No matter who is elected to City Council, no matter who is named City Manager, the same basic patterns emerge. Because people are human. That's why we'll always need independent journalism.
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6. You can't lecture people about the importance of journalism and expect them to care. If you get them to be local reporters, they get in their guts why local and national journalism matter in their own lives. (And why good journalism costs money.)
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7. Local news militias like the one I founded and run with
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8. I think there is nothing more exciting than having people write in to
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9. Most for-profit local news start-ups are run by men. We believe most nonprofit news militias will be run by women, as ours is. This is "traditional" women's work: monetarily under-rewarded service to our own local community. Taking care of our people.
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10. I totally love doing this. It feels like a grand experiment in the epistemology of democracy, which I now realize is the subject that runs through all of my life's work.
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