The Bristol Cable is media co-operative – created and owned by over 2,500 (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.
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.
6 ways the Cable is turning media ownership on its head
Newspapers should quite rightly be judged by what they print, but it’s high time to also focus attention on how they are run as businesses, and who they serve.
The Bristol Cable is an internationally recognised pioneer in building a new model for journalism. We – 2000 members (and growing) – are changing what local media looks like: in what we produce, how it’s produced, and who owns it.
Today, we are sending out copies of the magazine out to hundreds of Cable members.
To get yours through the post, become a member and pay £3 or more a month.
Otherwise, copies will be available for free from hundreds of venues across Bristol within the next week or so.
Cable members continue to shape a new media for Bristol
One hundred Bristol Cable members crammed in to the co-operative’s annual general meeting, proving once again that media in the public interest must be led...
Why we became Bristol Cable members (and why you should too!)
You can help sustain and grow the UK's only city-wide media co-op!
The Bristol Cable makes media which holds power to account, raises up voices that need to be heard, and trains local people in media skills.
At this event hosted by the Bristol Cable, renowned journalist Gary Younge explores how stories shape our lives, and his experience in hearing and telling them.