The closure of the Tri-City News, Burnaby Now and New Westminster Record has left a hole in our communities.
In April, I joined forces with some colleagues who had also been displaced by the closure of our publications to form a co-operative effort to bring local news coverage back to the communities corporate ownership had just abandoned.
Over the past several months we’ve been learning about co-operative governance, sketched out a vision for community-based non-profit local news coverage and launched a campaign to help us raise funds to make it happen.
The latter has been supported by a social media campaign that asks community leaders how local news is important to them. As well as building awareness and support for our campaign, the question challenges the community to think about the implications of this sudden loss of local news, building engagement.
Here are a few:
MARIO BARTEL 