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I always wondered why there's not some kind of nonprofit volunteer journalism organization you can get involved with. It doesn't appear to be something anyone
by eternityforest 3y ago
I always wondered why there's not some kind of nonprofit volunteer journalism organization you can get involved with.
It doesn't appear to be something anyone tries to get normal citizens into, despite the fact that we constantly try to convince people to learn other stuff with much less individual scale value, sometimes even somewhat crazy stuff like home chemistry experiments with lead salts.
I always thought that's what I'd want to do with my life if I wasn't coding, and maybe I'd be happier if I had gone to college and studied journalism...
- commoner 3y agoHave you tried writing for Wikinews? https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page Unlike Wikipedia, Wikinews allows and encourages original reporting. You don't need a journalism degree to contribute an article.
- niemandhier 3y agoBecause it would probably be overrun by the very opinionated. This happens frequently with new political parties: Someone starts an organisation, it get some amount of traction. Suddenly a lot of new people join and turn the whole thing into a tool to spread their views. AFD in Germany started like this, it almost happens to The Pirate Party, one can argue that Green Parties tend to suffer from this phenomenon.