- 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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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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Banner Home Page General Election 2019
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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Co-op Community General Election 2019
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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Lower Banner Home Page Investigations
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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Co-op Community Banner Home Page
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.