Many newsrooms are forced to lay off quality reporters and rely more on wire service stories. The number of places that fund primary reporting and produce investigative journalism is shrinking - and these are increasingly owned by a few large companies.
As a citizen of the world's largest democracy, and a permanent resident of the world's most vocal democracy - this trajectory scares the crap out of me.
Call me a dreamer - but I believe that reporterist will help change this trajectory. And that's precisely why it's a great time to be innovating in the media industry.
We are starting by creating an efficient market for news that rewards accurate, timely, and reliable content. This will increase the diversity, quantity, and quality of original and unbiased news that gets published.
Soon we will start work on a platform that will make it *even* easier for smaller publishers to create high quality news publications.
If that's a vision that excites you, read on. You can find out a bit more about our team here. If you
- have a solid computer science background
- are comfortable programming in Ruby/Java, but know pointers like the back of your hand
- have, ideally, spent several years working with scalable systems
then shoot me a note at innovate-at-reporterist-dot-com.
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