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.
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@ProPublica @damemagazine @themarkup @STAT @TucsonSentinel @Chron @blogoklahoma @thexylom @gbhnews @TheConversationUS @heiseonline @e_urq @Toastie & tag in your favs!
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 We're feeling the love over here!
@TexasObserver @gbhnews I hate to be That Guy™®©, but... now what?
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)
@gbhnews @TexasObserver 1. Thanks! 2. So you're a... *TEXAS* observer?
@msbellows @TexasObserver I've been observing for like 3 hours and I think this is the Alamo
@gbhnews @TexasObserver Thank GOD Texas still has independent local media so that claims like this can be factchecked by people with actual local knowledge!
So, Texas Observer, it's time to justify your continued existence: IS that the Alamo, or just a suburban rental car outlet that looks authentic but actually was built with DryVit circa 2003?
HAHAHAHAHAHA
@gbhnews @msbellows @TexasObserver
Mission de San Antonio de Bexar
@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!
@gbhnews @TexasObserver I love this part of the Guardian story. The fediverse is stepping up to do what the birdsite used to do.