“I was tired of getting poked in the chest for not doing anything wrong. And it was like, ‘You know what? If you want to keep poking me in the chest, let me purchase this paper for what it’s worth.'”
“We want to serve people like our parents: Immigrants, monolingual Spanish speakers who have specific needs and many stories to tell but who are often left out of mainstream media.”
“This community has largely dealt with news organizations that parachute in and write stories on education without speaking to parents, or they write stories about crime without speaking to residents. “
For the past few months, the Mountain View, Calif.–based NewsBreak has been paying full-time and part-time journalists in Denver, along with a dedicated editor, to publish local news on its platform.
“Issues that seem really intractable at the national level often aren’t at the local level. That’s why we think there’s a lot of opportunity for coverage there.”
This time it’s Lee Enterprises in the cross-hairs. Adding it to its empire would leave two American local newspaper giants — Gannett and Alden — and everyone else far behind.
By talking to journalists in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana, our project pushed back against the tendency to ignore the middle of the nation and its important journalism.
Antoine Haywood and Victor PickardNovember 10, 2021
Instead of letting public access channels wither due to commercial market fluctuations, we should publicly fund and expand the precious communication infrastructure that access media offers.
Haywood, Antoine. "Public access television channels are an untapped resource for building local journalism." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 10 Nov. 2021. Web. 12 May. 2023.
APA
Haywood, A. (2021, Nov. 10). Public access television channels are an untapped resource for building local journalism. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved May 12, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/11/public-access-television-channels-are-an-untapped-resource-for-building-local-journalism/
Chicago
Haywood, Antoine. "Public access television channels are an untapped resource for building local journalism." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified November 10, 2021. Accessed May 12, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/11/public-access-television-channels-are-an-untapped-resource-for-building-local-journalism/.
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