It’s a crazy time to start a news org. Journalism is fighting for its life right now. Revenues are collapsing as adtech robs news of its ability to monetize audiences. Tech platforms are deprioritizing news in their algorithms. Rapacious owners have hollowed out newsrooms.
And yet. I believe that we must fight on for journalism’s most important mission: holding power to account. Journalists have done this historically by playing the roles of Witness, Storyteller and Analyst.