The contact I have in the classroom with young journalists, who are both idealistic and realistic, always lifts my spirits.
I’m also hopeful about the journalism I see from the crop of startup news organizations, many of them non-profits, that are helping to fill the gaps left by the tragic decline of local newspapers.
And I’m heartened by the recent No Kings protests, where millions of Americans peacefully gathered and showed their patriotism and love of country.
Margaret Sullivan writing in the Guardian about current US experience.
Mm anyone seen signs of that in South West London?
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No, I don’t detect any journalism startup in south-west London of the kind that Margaret Sullivan has in mind. But there are examples in the UK. Here’s one not so far from East Sheen: https://guildford-dragon.com/
If there is less activity in the UK regrowing local news it is for lack of two things: (1) philanthropic funds to tide such startups over the inevitable hard times at the beginning and (2) the difficulties of finding groups of people (it takes a team) who will take this challenge on.
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Are substacks comparable?
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There’s nothing to stop a local news site being based in Substack. But there’s no single silver bullet for dealing with the degeneration of legacy local news. Startups must discover by experiment what platform, style, voice, content suits the community they aim to help.
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