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17 Jun, 5 tweets, 2 min read
1/ Hey, something cool we're doing. @DavidCornDC wanted to try his hand at a newsletter. Rather than decamp to Substack, we decided to build a product ourselves. Why? Well...
2/ First, having a VC-funded entity skim talent from news orgs may be good for that talent (with good deals) for a time (or forever for the lucky few) but it's not great for the news ecosystem. And limits people to work they can do w/o larger teams, lawyers, fact-checkers...
3/ And those of us who've watched dozens of VC-funded plays for media unicorns, well...it doesn't always work out, shall we say.

Remember pivot to video? Remember all the Facebook broken promises? The Google CMS?
4/ By building something ourselves, and using David's fans to test drive it, we can build something that benefits the whole newsroom. That we and he can see what's working and not working. That we can then use to build even better products for others on our team, or beyond.
5/ So if you're a fan of @DavidCornDC or @MotherJones or independent non-profit media more broadly, consider signing up and helping us to kick the tires. secure.motherjones.com/flex/mj/key/LA…

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18 Jun
3rd largest city in America, where the paper is being decimated (or ventimated) by Alden Capital
Chicago is: amazing, complicated, corrupt, dynamic, multi-ethnic, waxing and waning. All the things that make for great journalism.

And its main paper is being raided for parts.
Also think this is a failure of Chicago's many very wealthy people who did not step up to help buy just the Trib or all of the formerly Tribune/Tronc paper, a chance they had as recently as two months ago.
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17 Jun
College radio, zines, MTV, alt weeklies.

and there was a great alt/punk station in DC area for a time, whose call signs escape me.
A great thing about growing up inn DC in the 80s was it was such a mix of Go-Go and New Wave and Punk, and of course pop and the gods of MTV. Maybe that was the 80s everywhere. Well, not the Go-Go.
And it was WHFS. Thanks to @liambgray for reminding me. Such a great station.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHFS_(his…
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16 Jun
1/ Favor: I’d like to tell you a little bit about @MotherJones and why I’m asking for your support as we, like you, emerge from COVID isolation and gear up for the next year. secure.motherjones.com/flex/mj/key/7L…
2/ I’m incredibly proud of the work we did in the past 15 months. Here's a thread, and a report, on some of the most impactful work we've done in the last year:
3/ And incredibly proud that we made it through the pandemic without the layoffs that many/most news orgs went through.
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16 Jun
In reading up on this scandal I revisited the scandal of the most progressive supes voting not to remove Sheriff Mirikami after his domestic abuse case and my god this paragraph sfchronicle.com/news/article/F…
Whut
So many issues with this quote
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12 Jun
Uh...a LOT of updates to this story, including:

“Ginsburg said Thursday that Peskin’s alleged bullying and problem with alcohol has been an open secret at City Hall since 2000. “ sfchronicle.com/local-politics…
Several city officials say (not all of them named) that Peskin has been abusively drunk on the job...for decades.
Swear there is more weirdness, corruption, and dysfunction here, pound for pound, than other cities I’ve lived in (NYC) and also covered (DC).
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11 Jun
what a fucking monster
"The coins amounted to $800, which the mother and her 18-year-old daughter, Avery Sanford, were forced to pick up by hand with help from several friends in the neighborhood. They have since donated the money to a domestic abuse center in Richmond" ajc.com/news/man-dumps…
“My mom came out and was like, ‘What are you dumping in my yard?’ " said Sanford.

“It’s your last child support payment!” the man said.
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