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It was hard to recruit Republican woman (“SO many Democrat white women”), and following the news of the day felt PTSD-inducing to many. But aggressive moderation and the help of a few librarians made a potentially uncivil discussion a little more respectful.
“Whenever you have an individual interaction, a lot of the bluster, a lot of the generalizations, a lot of the group identifications fall away,” one participant in Pennsylvania said.
News organizations’ audiences are increasingly moving from public social media to closed or semi-closed platforms like WhatsApp, Discord, and Facebook Groups. But there are still opportunities for good reporting on the communities we cover.
“We think this will be a beacon of civility as the year progresses toward the midterms in this really polarized time.”
“Can we, as an established news company, create something that feels like a news startup focused around investigative and enterprise news, done for a social audience?”
With dialogue journalism, Spaceship Media aims to cover and dispel conflict without adding to it.