The return of the broadsheet?
I’m hoping for a resurgence in news editors, and it seems very possible. A local writer, editor, and commentator of some sophistication will publish what was, in the 1700s and before, a subscription broadsheet. She will allready be an engaged citizen, reading all the local media deemed relevant, especially from nontraditional sources (blogs, Youtube, Twitter, Craigslist, Facebook, mailing lists) as well as governmental reports and the remnants of the local newspaper. She will analyze the news, make some fact-checking calls, and send it out to her subscribers, who are willing to pay $1 or $0.50 per [unit of time] to not have to filter everything. This won’t replace the social process of surfacing news, and it won’t be a full-time job, but it’ll make coherent reports possible in small civic settings where even a mass of participants cannot volunteer the energy to keep the interested informed.
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