Host of Social Impact Podcast at OffBeat (OBBM) Business Media Network • Trying to stop Mike Morath (above) and the #edtech takeover of #txed 🖐🏼
Mar 18 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
Why is @dallasnews losing money?
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Newspapers are shifting from telling stories, doing investigative reporting, and reporting the news because they are being replaced by “solutions journalism” or “impact media” funded by investors. This shift is purposeful and serves the interests of #socialimpact investors and those who benefit from human capital markets. Those markets run on increased suffering, poverty, crime, natural disasters and chaos.
The Dallas Morning News has fallen prey to this trend. @DallasPolitics
Instead of relying on advertisers and readership for funding, they solicit funding from non-profits, family foundations, constructions companies, philanthropists, chambers of commerce, universities, and venture capitalists.
@Commit2Dallas @soljourno @williamstodd78 @GiveWisely @SMU @MeadowsFound @valeriaoliesc @TaliRichman @EvaMarieAyala2) What is solutions journalism?
Solutions journalism is an approach to news that focuses on social ills and societal problems by telling stories that tug at your emotions and present solutions driven by investors who bankroll the schemes up front.
They provide the funding and enter into smart contracts or agreements for social impact investing schemes with governmental agencies through public-private partnerships.
These creative financing schemes use euphemisms or cute titles like After8toEducate for homeless (unsheltered) youth. After8toeducate was first reported by Dallas Morning News in 2017 with a story about 35 homeless kids in Dallas ISD. The school district entered into a public-private partnership with a nonprofit and a social impact firm called Social Venture Partners.
My district of @RichardsonISD forced my youngest child when he was 17 (a minor!) at Lake Highlands High School to sign @Commit2Dallas’s “Dallas County Promise.”
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He was coerced by counselors to enter his info for the #FAFSA. They came into his class and told them they had to do it to graduate.
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That’s was a lie. I made them DELETE his data. I have no proof they actually did.
What is the reason for this across Texas? #txed #txlegevimeo.com/6163673492) @RachelHaleforTX reminded of this #data harvesting scam again this morning with her post on FB from yesterday:
