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A majority of eligible staffers support union representation. They're organizing around greater transparency, pay equity, and ...
Staff at Outlier Media and THE CITY NY share how quizzes can increase voters' confidence in civic participation.
Laura Castañeda says the decision was “retaliation” from the paper’s parent company, Alden Global Capital, for a more diverse opinion page.
Laura Castañeda says the decision was “retaliation” from the paper’s parent company for a more diverse opinion page. Her firing comes amid a struggle for editorial independence at the Union-Tribune, ...
Fifteen years into the cratering of the local commercial newspaper business, a burgeoning noncommercial media movement is developing.
Antoine Haywood on the value of learning from community access television's roots in prosocial activism, public education, and civic communication.
Jesse Hardman on divesting from the “news desert” framework by listening to and supporting locally-grown civic media makers and projects to help them thrive long-term.
Jodi Rave Spotted Bear on the necessity of American Indians having a seat at the table to forge a new path in building independent Indigenous media.
We are at a pivotal moment. A shift in the tone and tenor of the conversation around the “local news crisis” has been happening for years, due much in part to the continued growth of the civic media ...
Regardless of reason, uncritical food writing shores up existing power structures, and fails to serve the consumers and workers who stand to be hurt by them.
Discussing cultural appreciation and appropriation is also about broader questions of who can get a platform to share food — and who profits.
Food reporters shouldn't just write about what's on their plate — they need to interrogate how it got there.