- The Bristol Cable
- TheBristolCable
- The Bristol Cable is media co-operative – created and owned by over 2000 (and counting) people in the city. With free events and trainings, a multimedia website and a free quarterly print edition, The Bristol Cable is redefining local journalism through challenging multimedia, community action and cooperative ownership. Online, in print and on the street.
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General Election 2019 Banner Home Page
Cable editorial: Our media and elections are all too much like a century ago. Here’s what we can do.
A lot has changed, but too much remains the same.
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Bristol West General Election Hustings
Hospitals, schools, climate change, Brexit… Your chance to put the big questions to your parliamentary candidates for Bristol West.
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Gift the Cable
This Christmas, give the gift of high quality, in depth, independent journalism and support Bristol’s media cooperative at the same time
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General Election 2019 Co-op Community
Help us monitor the election and keep the campaign clean
Join the Cable in being on the lookout for misleading data, dodgy money and half truths in this election.
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2019 Annual General Meeting
We’re pleased to invite you to the Bristol Cable Annual General Meeting 2019, where Cable members help steer the co-op for the year ahead.
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Removing Rough Sleepers Co-op Community
Editorial: A response to Marvin Rees regarding the Cable’s hostile environment article
Mayor Marvin Rees has clarified Bristol council’s position, saying it is exactly the same as the other 11 councils.
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Bristol Cable members set the news agenda – BBC air Lopresti slavery investigation
BBC Points West helped us tell the story of how ice cream and property boss Salvatore Lopresti kept men in slave-like conditions.
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Dark Arts: a true crime series
Dark Arts is a tale of private investigators, corruption, political pressure, Pakistani heroin and a mansion in the Somerset hills revealed over three parts in a new Cable true crime series.
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Why the Cable is backing I Am Judah
Behind the shaky video that caught national attention is an important wider story. The Cable is proud to get behind a film seeking to tell it.
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Why Cable members are voting for change
It’s time to hear from members on which issue we should prioritise in our next campaign – making drug use safer or cleaning up our air.
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Vote online for the Cable’s next campaign and push for change in the city
We believe journalism is more than information. It’s power. And now it’s time to add your voice to create positive change in Bristol.