Staten Island is a really good community. We export a lot of media. Staten Island’s GDP is like $22 billion so you know we’re hard workers, much like our neighbors all over New York City.
Could we kick off a public reporting corporation that intakes, records, captions, streams, transcribes, and publishes the words of real people from the community, every day 24/7? Kind of like open court, but for profit, but honest about it?
I see it hitting big in today’s “don’t know who to trust for news” economy. I see it locking arms with community stakeholders eager for exposure.
Look at Mirabai Knight and what she built for free, and the businesses that were built from that. What are the possibilities if we start engaging with local and online communities to funnel money back to ours?
If I were a better fundraiser I’d have $10 million for that. We’d double it under half a decade.
And it sounds crazy but the money being poured on the field is irrational. Do they really expect the courts to stop being cash-strapped soon? No. They’re after the big law guys. Leaving untold amounts of money on the table for what our skills can provide the public.
What do you all think?
So reporting as in news reporting? Really not sure where this was going.