Don’t save local journalism – reinvent it
Five years after launching The Local, the donor-funded publication’s founding editor reflects on the state of local journalism and what it means for citizens and the philanthropic sector.
Julien Posture is an illustrator and researcher based in Montreal. He creates simple and thoughtful images with a queer sensibility for a wide array of clients, both local and international, from Revenu Québec to The New York Times. Trained in anthropology (M.Sc), he also writes and speak about visual culture and the creative industries, his most recent project deals with the history and sociology of the concept of “style”.
Five years after launching The Local, the donor-funded publication’s founding editor reflects on the state of local journalism and what it means for citizens and the philanthropic sector.
Raised in a culture of extreme social competition and individual perfection, young workers have internalized neoliberal capitalism and are demonstrating its most disruptive effects in the workplace, Aiden Cyr writes.
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On a day when it’s hard to cut through the noise, the value of Giving Tuesday still depends largely on what each organization expects to get out of it.
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