Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist Cory Doctorow @pluralistic speech at the 2025 Ursula Franklin Lecture. >

https://vimeo.com/1059798497

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Well-funded #short #sellers who don't care about the news per se can still be motivated into #funding freely available, high-quality #investigativejournalism about corporate malfeasance (notoriously, one of the least attractive forms of journalism for advertisers).

They can pay journalists top dollar – even bid against each other for the most talented journalists – and supply them with all the tools they need to ply their trade.

A short won't ever try the kind of bullshit the owners of Vice pulled, paying themselves millions while their journalists lose access to Lexisnexis or the PACER database:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/24/anti-posse/#when-you-absolutely-positively-dont-give-a-solitary-single-fuck

The shorts whose journalists are best equipped stand to make the most money.

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