Seconded. And this is showing itself to be viable non-profit, online model for what every American city needs to undertake to reestablish independent metro dailies. This is the future. - ThreadSky

audacityofdespair.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Seconded. And this is showing itself
to be viable non-profit, online model for what every American city needs
to undertake to reestablish independent metro dailies. This is the future.

Reposted from Ron Cassie

Massive congratulations to The Baltimore Banner. What they’ve accomplished in three years, in terms of building their newsroom and the quality of journalism they produce, is nothing short of incredible. The Banner has supplanted the 187-year old Sun as the daily record of this city.

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docmartin-theprof.bsky.social•4 days ago

Absolutely made my day.

docwilson.bsky.social•4 days ago

May someone in DC take notice, please…

john-schroeder.bsky.social•4 days ago

Incredibly great to hear and encouraging. The sun was such a great paper back I. The day, and the vacuum where local reporting used to be has contributed to our current state of affairs. Thanks for highlighting this.

colinweaver.bsky.social•4 days ago

Smaller, but are you familiar with Berkeleyside? It's great.

tglibs78.bsky.social•4 days ago

Agreed! As a resident of the area, I appreciate their work. Now, can they add people to cover Harford County? The political machinations run virtually unchecked due to the lack of investigative journalists!

audacityofdespair.bsky.social•4 days ago

In fact, as it is a non-profit they are committed to using revenue to expand the newsroom and I am told that growing the county coverage is an ambition.

ddangerdill.bsky.social•4 days ago

Does the model allow for livable wages? We need real reporting and we need thriving newsrooms. I just hope we can also have professions that pay the bills.

audacityofdespair.bsky.social•4 days ago

Salary and benefits are being paid. The experiment has been funded by a Maryland entrepreneur, Stewart Bainum, who is hoping that the newspaper can be brought to self-sufficiency in a handful of years. Again, it is designed as a non-profit endeavor.

ddangerdill.bsky.social•4 days ago

Hopefully more investments to come as the near future should be boom years for the news business. Independent journalists might be valuable incubators, workshopping new formats for user interface.

dhricker.bsky.social•4 days ago

Lord I hope so.

cinloou.bsky.social•4 days ago

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