1. Doing hard news in a small town (using citizen-reporters in our case) is really challenging. Our managing editor @imagineannie is astonishingly good at helping us bring hard news decoupled from simplistic good/evil tropes. But it aches.
7. Local news militias like the one I founded and run with @imagineannie at @eastlansinginfo are therefore not only not a threat to professional armies of journalists; they help people understand in their guts why they should pay up to support professional journalists.
I wrote about @eastlansinginfo for this week's Solution Set and spoke with @AliceDreger and @imagineannie about how they run their site with "citizen reporters" https://t.co/gpkIqjhQuC
Yo read about the "news militia" concept I'm working on with @imagineannie (legendarily the only boss who has ever been able to keep me in line)
https://t.co/FVew5OjNyS