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Thanks for these ideas. I think the right to repair is going to get a lot of traction right now with the new executive order—or at least I hope so. The robotics

Thanks for these ideas. I think the right to repair is going to get a lot of traction right now with the new executive order—or at least I hope so. The robotics for weeding are definitely interesting too. In terms of reporting on problems or potential solutions, this project is “solutions journalism,” which means rigorous reporting on responses to a problem. The problem part is built in as you look at the how well (or not) the response is working.

mgsouth 5y ago
...and "solutions journalism" itself sounds like an interesting topic. There are lots of posts on HN discussing journalism in general, challenges faced by "serious" news orgs, and fresh takes. Searching for "journalism" (search box is at bottom of the main page) turns up lots, such as [0], [1], [2], [3], and [4]. And now I'm off down the "Blendle" rabbit hole... [edit] Arggh. Homepage blendle.com, subhead "To our Beta users": "Today Blendle starts its beta in the United States..." -- undated, and "... Continue reading on medium.com" [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14020950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14020950 Social media's effect on journalism is greater than shift from print to digital [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22146086 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22146086 Jim Lehrer’s Rules of Journalism [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12611377 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12611377 Best practice examples of data journalism and visualization projects [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11343822 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11343822 Blendle: Pay-per-article journalism platform that refunds you for clickbait [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9453821 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9453821 Blendle: A radical experiment with micropayments in journalism, 365 days later
- emilywolfe 5y ago
  These are interesting, and I second a lot of the journalist’s comments in the Lehrer discussion. I see that Blendle is one response to the problem of the lack of funding for journalism, and someone here suggested Substack as another. I’d love to see this group hack how to pay the real cost of in-depth journalism. I spent 450+ hours on that first story. Which is great, and I’ll do it again, but we can’t expect journalists to always shoulder that load.

mgsouth 5y ago

...and "solutions journalism" itself sounds like an interesting topic. There are lots of posts on HN discussing journalism in general, challenges faced by "serious" news orgs, and fresh takes. Searching for "journalism" (search box is at bottom of the main page) turns up lots, such as [0], [1], [2], [3], and [4]. And now I'm off down the "Blendle" rabbit hole... [edit] Arggh. Homepage blendle.com, subhead "To our Beta users": "Today Blendle starts its beta in the United States..." -- undated, and "... Continue reading on medium.com" [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14020950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14020950 Social media's effect on journalism is greater than shift from print to digital [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22146086 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22146086 Jim Lehrer’s Rules of Journalism [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12611377 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12611377 Best practice examples of data journalism and visualization projects [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11343822 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11343822 Blendle: Pay-per-article journalism platform that refunds you for clickbait [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9453821 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9453821 Blendle: A radical experiment with micropayments in journalism, 365 days later

emilywolfe 5y ago
These are interesting, and I second a lot of the journalist’s comments in the Lehrer discussion. I see that Blendle is one response to the problem of the lack of funding for journalism, and someone here suggested Substack as another. I’d love to see this group hack how to pay the real cost of in-depth journalism. I spent 450+ hours on that first story. Which is great, and I’ll do it again, but we can’t expect journalists to always shoulder that load.