You don’t want the news to be a zero sum game
There’s plenty of room for every organization that works to actually gather and deliver the news.
Delivering the news is not a zero sum game.
No...
No dependence on access
I’m embarking on a difficult but exciting process of learning how to retrieve information without depending fully on official access.
The Intercept reporter Glenn Greenwald...
Mission should dictate our business model
I’ve spent this summer intensely exploring what kind of business model would serve the mission of Free Press.
It’s been a time of talking with...
Local community relationships more important than clicks
One of the ways news has been hollowed out is that much of what we read is not connected to much of anything that is real in our daily lives. Free Press does things differently.
But why is it news?
I read a lot of news.
And what I see more often than not is that news tends to fall one of two ways.
One way...
Our top ten stories in 2019 show readers value details of breaking news
Our top ten most-read stories of 2019 were breaking news and follow-ups that went more in-depth than most broadcast news.
Why the award matters
I haven’t been a journalist for my entire adult life.
And so, it was with surprise and gratitude that I received my first journalism award...
Net neutrality matters to all of us
I fear that for some "net neutrality" may seem too much like an esoteric term that only "techies" are interested in.
But from the standpoint...
Cynicism or Skepticism?
In my reporting, I will choose skepticism rather than cynicism.
Cynicism, and its opposite, optimism are philosophies about people.
There aren’t many optimists in the reporting...
Why we are launching two types of opinion pieces on Free Press
After three years of my resisting any policy or cultural opinion pieces in Free Press, I have decided to adopt two types of articles.
