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Broken News: Decentralizing Journalism To Restore Trust

TL;DR - We’re developing techniques and tools to modernize the process of newsgathering and publishing through the principles of decentralization and the power of community. Our hope is to restore trust in journalism and revive reporting, especially at the local level where news deserts are causing democracy and civic life to dry up.An Intro to the Problem: Trusted News Sources Are Going ExtinctIt has to be one of the most common refrains in conversations with friends and family on newsy topi...

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Local Journalism Is the Blockchain Security Model for Politics and Culture

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Dear Journalists, Don't Sleep on Web3

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Apr 29
Local Journalism Is the Blockchain Security Model for Politics and Culture
At JournoDAO, we are often asked, “What does journalism have to do with web3 and crypto?” Well, there is actually a deep alignment between the purpose of journalism and the purpose of decentralization and the blockchain consensus model. In blockchain terms, journalists are like network validators. Especially journalists on the local/regional level. Journalists verify statements and engage in cultural sense-making for their communities so that a large number of people can reach consensus about...
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Apr 20
Doesn't have to be this one, but it could be. Credit: Ben Burlaga / UnsplashIn recent years, trust in media has plummeted. A 2021 international study from the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford found that only 44 percent of media consumers across 46 countries trust in the news overall. In the United States, the amount who trust the news is a shocking 29 percent. What’s worse: media consolidation and the cannibalizing forces of Web1 and Web2 business models have left many commu...
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Mar 17
Dear Journalists, Don't Sleep on Web3
About five months ago, I was just like you. Rolling my eyes at crypto Twitter and guffawing at the excitement over NFTs. But then I was forced to accept a freelance payment in crypto, and the process of getting that money into my bank account got my curiosity going. For one, the money actually showed up. I actually got paid. So my assumption that crypto tokens are worthless started to erode. Thus began my journey down the rabbit hole to figure out what else I was wrong about. The series of re...
JournoDAO is Upgrading the Journalism Ecosystem. Join us.
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Feb 12
We got a lot of things wrong with the Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 versions of journalism. Both dealt in the currency of cynicism too often. We believe the Web3 version of journalism will deal more in the currency of hope. This is why we’re launching JournoDAO to explore how DAOs and Web3 can revitalize journalism and repair the damage done by the cynical use of some truly tremendous tools and technologies over the past quarter century. We’re looking to build a community to explore some of the most ex...