Reaching just one person can make a huge impact if it's the right person, someone who can take action based on what the journalist has learned and shared.
Wednesday's budget discussions resurfaced tensions over police funding, particularly after a few councilors threw around the word "defunding" to describe the shift of an extra $2 million from the Portland Police Bureau's budget to the parks bureau. Councilors Angelita Morillo and Candace Avalos chastised their colleagues who used a boogeyman approach to drum up public fear over the move. "I'm not interested in slogans that are just trying to make political tension out of what is a fiscal responsibility," Avalos asserted.
Well, it's not a threat, that's a penalty that is in the Communications Act, and if you don't... trust in the national mainstream media is at an absolute low... the agenda that I'm trying to run at the FCC is to empower those actual local television stations to serve the public interest.
John Thornton transformed local journalism by founding The Texas Tribune and the American Journalism Project, pioneering sustainable models for digital newsrooms against a backdrop of decline in legacy media.
