- The Bristol Cable
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- 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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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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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.