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Updates from The Bristol Cable about the co-operative, including milestones, callouts, membership announcements, and editorials.

The challenge and opportunity: The Cable’s climate crisis special is out now

It won’t be available in as many places this time, for obvious reasons, but if you join for £3 a month, you will get the latest edition direct to your door!

The Bristol Cable

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The Bristol Cable in 2020: A year like no other, for a newspaper like no other

This was the year we all found out the answer to a question we didn’t think we’d be asked: how will we respond to a...

The Bristol Cable

Edition 23

How Bristol 24/7 publicised Big Tobacco’s push for respectability, before accepting its money

Local magazine and news website’s £25,000 grant from Philip Morris followed a string of articles referencing its new heated tobacco products.

Alon Aviram and The Bristol Cable

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This is how Cable members are building a media owned by communities not corporations

The annual general meeting 2020 was a media shareholders event like no other

The Bristol Cable

Inside: Bristol's Private Mental Health Services

Revealed: The true story behind the closure of privately-run mental health ward at Priory Bristol

Workers from a children’s ward at Priory Hospital Bristol speak out about regular incidents of self-harm and alleged attacks on staff, following a six-month Cable investigation.

Matty Edwards

Inside: Bristol's Private Mental Health Services

Inside: Private mental health services in Bristol investigated

Frontline workers and families speak out as the Cable investigates why private sector involvement is growing and what impact it’s having on people in Bristol.

Matty Edwards and Fatima Hudoon

Cable Community News

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.

The Bristol Cable

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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.

The Bristol Cable

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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.

The Bristol Cable

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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

The Bristol Cable

Callouts

Help our reporting on private mental health services

We're about to publish a new series about private mental health services in Bristol, focusing on why people are being treated by for-profit comapanies rather than the NHS. We need your input.

Get in touch

Matty Edwards and Fatima Hudoon

Coronavirus in Bristol

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?

The Bristol Cable

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