Good journalism is no different than clean water running from the tap. It is an essential public service. Useful and timely information, honest and thoughtful stories through which we can better understand our world—these are things we very literally cannot live without.

Like most public goods, journalism has been under attack for decades, and the folks most harmed by systemic inequality are the same folks left out of mainstream media. As always, they’re also the same folks building the solution.

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