thefuturewasnow

Helping independent media grow with @NewspackPub.
Taught @MedillSchool, @Cronkite_ASU. Worked many places, also building @govpack.

[thefuturewasnow @thefuturewasnow]

ALSO, please VOTE! At home in your primaries, school board races, and in November but ALSO online before 6pm MT Saturday (6/25). If you’re eligible, you should have gotten a ballot by email. If you didn’t get one, or don’t know if you’re eligible, email [email protected]. #IRE22

[Stephanie Lulay @slulay2]

And a shoutout to @CCChronicle student journalists @OCohenReports and @AbraRichardson for scooping @blockclubchi earlier this week on our own good news.

@chlawrence taught them well!

https://t.co/UQvW4DMXY4

[ppcantabria @ppcantabria]

Jesús Celada será el candidato del PP a la alcaldía de Camaleño y Alan Ruiz a la de Tresviso

Javier Gómez opta a la reelección en Potes, Jesús Fuente Briz en Cabezón de Liébana, Jesús Cuevas en Cillorigo y Enrique Sabarís en Pesaguero

ℹ️ https://t.co/sRXSQLNRrF

#EntreTodos

[Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @KeeangaYamahtta]

I wrote about the Chicago mayoral election...https://t.co/taoGbNUPSV

[Kinsey Wilson @kinseywilson]

@SonnyMJiles called @NewspackPub the best thing since sliced bread at #kmf2023. @LocalMediaAssoc Is out with the numbers to back it up. https://t.co/z41aV92rE1

[thefuturewasnow @thefuturewasnow]

@byadamrhodes It would only cost you $20.99 https://t.co/CCjKnm40bB

[thefuturewasnow @thefuturewasnow]

@mickeyd1971 @propublica Congratulations @mickeyd1971 !!

[thefuturewasnow @thefuturewasnow]

It's been a real treat to work with Stewart and the rest of the team at Powered by Coffee on @govpack. Thanks also for letting me be a guest on your show!

[Stewart Ritchie @stewartritchie]

Want a nice change from the collapse of Twitter?

We release the first episode of the Scale podcast yesterday.

I talk with @thefuturewasnow about how news media impacts democracy, his project Govpack helping indy news orgs show candidate profiles during election cycles and...

[Kinsey Wilson @kinseywilson]

Signal Cleveland is the newest in an ambitious line of digital startups hoping to secure the future of local news. And the 200th site to launch on Newspack -- demonstrating the value of shared services in an economically challenging environment for news. https://t.co/jVtTFyu1Uy

[thefuturewasnow @thefuturewasnow]

TIL Zip Codes are not polygons. Thanks @iandees! https://t.co/7ZDoTvwpOj

[Jonah Newman @jonahshai]

This guide takes an immense amount of work from the small but mighty @injusticewatch team (and some incredible freelancers). I'm so proud of what we've accomplished again this year and want to tell you how the sausage gets made. A little behind-the-scenes 🧵:

[Mark Elliott @markmobility]

While Brett Favre was getting Mississippi to spend over $5 million of federal welfare funds in a new volleyball stadium (and receiving $1.1 million himself), the state approved just 1.42% of the poor people who applied for assistance. | @MSFreePress
https://t.co/C3CKDVzieG

[Sahan Journal @SahanJournal]

Forty-eight suspects, $250 million allegedly stolen, and 257 pages of allegations. Eight interesting things about the alleged food-aid fraud scheme involving Feeding Our Future.

https://t.co/LkA3aRoIgZ

[The Marshall Project @MarshallProj]

News Inside is our print publication featuring our award-winning journalism that relates directly to incarcerated lives.

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[mago torres @magiccia]

Super excited to be at #ONA22 representing the Data-Driven Reporting Project and @knightlab. Want to know how we can help your local organization strengthen its data capacity through investigative projects? Let's talk! my DM's are open.

[Demian Bulwa @demianbulwa]

There's never been a database of who owns every property in the Bay Area, making it difficult to understand the powerful forces shaping the housing market.

So we built one.

Just enter an address.

Amazing work by @emma_stiefel @susieneilson & many others https://t.co/gRgZ8so0gj

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

From @AFPgraphics: The full route of the queue to see Queen Elizabeth II's lying-in-state at the Palace of Westminster

[thefuturewasnow @thefuturewasnow]

via @NYTimes https://t.co/8EHJwMUybK

[thefuturewasnow @thefuturewasnow]

This isn't election security. It's entrapment. And it's going to end in humiliation for DeSantis. https://t.co/oFdEyfAw9I via @slate

[Baltimore Beat @baltbeat]

Maryland’s slow crawl towards legalization also means the underground drug market has been disrupted a few times over now, @notrivia writes. https://t.co/eOxxxpEyVl