Texas Observer
It's time for a #Newstodon Friday Party with some of our favorite #fediverse news organizations and journalists!
Post your big stories of the week, or the best articles you read, in the replies.
If you love seeing #journalism here, remember to follow, subscribe and support the publications & writers that matter to you! #news
@ProPublica @damemagazine @themarkup @STAT @TucsonSentinel @Chron @blogoklahoma @thexylom @gbhnews @TheConversationUS @heiseonline @e_urq @Toastie & tag in your favs!
gbhnews
We think the story of the week HAS to be: @TexasObserver saving itself. #WeGotUs! International coverage: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/29/texas-observer-closing-gofundme
See how the effort to put the TO on a new footing is going: https://www.gofundme.com/f/laid-off-texas-observer-journalists-and-staff
Just goes to show: the future of journalism is about news organizations directly supported by the people they serve. ?
Congrats to the @TexasObserver ! #newstodon
gbhnews
That's an excellent question. I worked for INN (The Institute for Nonprofit News) for a few years. At the time we had ~140 nonprofit news organizations as members and the core of our work was helping them get to a place of financial sustainability.
Typically, success looked like:
* recurring revenue from memberships
* events
and sometimes
* partnerships or even acquisition by a public media organization
(it's their call of course, I'm just an observer)
M.S. Bellows, Jr.
@TexasObserver @gbhnews I hate to be That Guy™®©, but... now what?
Texas Observer
@gbhnews We're feeling the love over here! ?❤️
Texas Observer
@gbhnews @msbellows Rebuilding our board and growing a group of trusted advisors, building membership/subscribers and making our digital membership options more appealing, looking for more grants and major benefactors, and promote our upcoming event at the Paramount Theatre ... https://tickets.austintheatre.org/9270/9271
For starters!
The Conversation U.S.
@thexylom @ProPublica @damemagazine @themarkup @STAT @TucsonSentinel @Chron @blogoklahoma @gbhnews @heiseonline @e_urq @Toastie @nonmodernist
Our gratitude to everyone who helped @TexasObserver to keep doing their great work!
Meanwhile, today we have a former prosecutor explaining for non-lawyers why the NY indictment of Donald #trump is not an open-and-shut case, and the hurdles that prosecutors will have to overcome.
https://theconversation.com/trumps-indictment-stretches-us-legal-system-in-new-ways-a-former-prosecutor-explains-4-key-points-to-understand-198970
#trumpindictment #News #newstodon
The Xylom is hiring* !
@TexasObserver @ProPublica @damemagazine @themarkup @STAT @TucsonSentinel @Chron @blogoklahoma @gbhnews @TheConversationUS @heiseonline @e_urq @Toastie
Our big story of the week: @nonmodernist did a photo essay for us walking through Weelaunee Forest, in direct response to Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens' false claim that there is no forest at the proposed "Cop City" site: https://www.thexylom.com/post/perspective-a-walk-through-weelaunee-forest
#atlanta #environment #nature #stopcopcity #writing #newstodon
The Markup
@TheConversationUS @thexylom @ProPublica @damemagazine @STAT @TucsonSentinel @Chron @blogoklahoma @gbhnews @heiseonline @e_urq @Toastie @nonmodernist @TexasObserver Hello! Slight delay here as our office was closed on Friday in recognition of César Chávez day.
We're *so* glad to have @TexasObserver here and kicking off #Newstodon Friday. We'd like to share a column that reporter @tfeathers wrote about the difficulty of getting information on government algorithms: https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/04/01/it-takes-a-small-miracle-to-learn-basic-facts-about-government-algorithms
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