There’s never been a more important moment for alternative newsweeklies in America. Nor have they ever been so difficult to pull together. There’s no funding, little support. The very notion of unfake news has been degraded in recent years—it’s downright reviled by the White House. Daily newspapers are shrinking as they struggle to keep themselves afloat. How can we possibly think about recommitting to alternative journalism?
It’s the city that works. Who among you has not secretly snickered while friends in New York complain of interminable subway delays and rerouted transport lines while you hop the Green Line to work or greet your morning bus driver as you swipe your Ventra card?
And none of that can even give you a sense of what’s to come in the future. There’s never been a more important moment for alternative newsweeklies in America. And there’s never been a city more capable of letting them thrive. —Anne Elizabeth Moore
