Sarah Alvarez is the founder of Outlier Media in Detroit, where she remains editor-at-large. Journalism should be a public service, responsive to the needs of all people.
One of my closest friends, Kate, is a financial advisor. She's very good at her job without accepting her industry's conventional wisdom that more money is the goal. Instead, she's all about wealth re-distribution. She recently had me try out an exercise she uses
Last week I challenged you to read a news story and ask yourself, sentence by sentence, if it was delivering information that was either valuable or actionable. It wasn't an exercise meant to denigrate storytelling. I know not everyone wants their news source to just inject info straight
Last week I was up in front of a classroom of undergrads taking an intro level journalism class at Temple University. It's the first time I've ever taught a full class. I've been in more than my fair share of college and graduate school
Updated as of 1/27. There aren't any easy answers to how to fix our news and information systems. And we don't know if improving these systems will be enough to matter in the wider world. But I trust that some answers, at least, can be
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