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- The Bristol Cable is media co-operative – created and owned by over 2,100 (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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We’re hiring a Communications & Partnerships Coordinator
Passionate about growing community power? Superlative communicator? Social media savvy? Apply to join our team as our new Community & Partnerships Coordinator! Applications close 7 Oct.
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Launching an events calendar to amplify Bristol’s communities
We’re launching a calendar to help Bristolians find out what's on with community and social events.
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Editorial: After Colston, now to tear down structures of racism, including in the media
A statement from the Cable on the felling of Colston, Black Lives Matter and working towards anti-racism.
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Free Webinar: is reader-owned media the business model of the future?
We started with a group of volunteers - now we have ten staff and thousands of members. We’ll be sharing what we’ve learnt so far, along with co-op expert Dave Boyle.
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A new tool for harnessing public knowledge for better journalism
Out of crisis comes an opportunity to create new ways to get communities involved in our reporting
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Editorial: Journalism is a public service. It should act like it. And it needs you to support it.
Could the pandemic force newspapers to reconsider their priorities and better serve public needs?
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Editorial: 5G coronavirus conspiracy theorists are attacking the Cable
With conspiracy theories spreading in pandemic Britain with destructive consequences, we need readers to bolster responsible and thorough journalism with their support.
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Share and create this list of free Bristol coronavirus advice on employment, housing, immigration and more
There’s help out there on a range of issues.
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Share and create this list of volunteering and support in Bristol during coronavirus
Can you help connect volunteers to local organisations in need of help?
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Share and create this list of Bristol food, including for those in need during coronavirus
Support local food businesses and find help if you are in need.
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Solutions In Bristol Co-op Community
Why we’re starting a series of ‘solutions journalism’
Looking at ambitious and realistic solutions to the problems facing our communities - not just the problems.
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Cable wins innovation fund to work with communities to produce public-interest news
We'll be bringing 'open newsrooms' to communities across Bristol, working with locals to select and co-produce stories that matter.
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Help us find solutions for Bristol
In the next edition and beyond, we plan to focus on exploring solutions to the biggest issues facing our city. Have your say.
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Another year in building a new media. Here’s to many more. We need it!
This year was a big one for us. Because every year we exist is a big one.
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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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Co-op Community Removing Rough Sleepers
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.
