One loose idea that I like is local community (the smaller, the better) hiring a journalist (or even better, a diverse group of journalists) directly. They woul

One loose idea that I like is local community (the smaller, the better) hiring a journalist (or even better, a diverse group of journalists) directly. They would cover the local events and politics and maybe give some digest of the national/world level from other sources. Apparently in the US officials like sheriffs and school board members are elected, so maybe it could work in a similar way. This would probably need a bunch of stringent rules to ban collusions with politicians (which has been of course a problem even with commercial journalism).