@tralinda@mastodon.social @hiitslissy @Plaer1 @Dahlialith
There are not a lot of ways to get breaking local news though. My local news paper is dying on the vine. Over 90% of its content is national or state news because they don't have reporters in town any more. Same with local TV stations -- sure if something explodes there will be news coverage, but local school board meetings, city council decisions, homelessness, crime that doesn't rise to the level of sensationalism; the only way I find these is from local citizen journalists, and they are still mainly on twitter.
@antares @tralinda @hiitslissy @Plaer1 @Dahlialith I was chatting with a local news person here a couple of weeks ago, wondering if the model of people donating to server admins might work to run local papers at some point. There's a lot of goodwill towards local papers and journalism I think.
@nomdeb @tralinda@mastodon.social @hiitslissy @Plaer1 @Dahlialith Yes, and also find a way to pay the people creating content. we need to pay a living wage to something like 5 or 6 people if we want consistent professional local news coverage.
