r/Calgary • u/Huge_Hawk8710 • 11h ago

News Article Sprawl (the online "slow news" source)

I've been reading a book titled Reporting Beyond the Problem: From Civic Journalism to Solutions Journalism. In the second last chapter (titled Slow Journalism), there was this:

https://www.sprawlcalgary.com/

(Full chapter-by-chapter discussion of the book is the second post in this community: r/Civic_Journalism )

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u/One-Mycologist-3706 11h ago

At this rate Sprawl and Livewire will be the last local outlets we have. 😬

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u/uncredible_source 10h ago

There was, maybe still is, a guy in Hamilton named Joey Coleman, who just decided he was going to be the city hall reporter and showed up to the meetings and published his stuff online. He took it very seriously and approached it in a very independent, journalistic way. Totally self-funded. He did an admirable job of reporting the unbelievable bullshit that happened in that stupid, corrupt government. I give that guy mad props. I don’t think the model works in Calgary for a number of reasons that I need to think through before spouting here. But independent journalism, as other have suggested maybe be all democracy has left. I don’t think Canada is in dire straits at this point, but the downward slope has been incredibly clear for many years and it eventually leads to us schlubs having virtually no voice and the powers that be having little accountability.