New Scoop Invites Feedback
As New Scoop was launching last fall, a steering committee member shared a bold dream that this idea of a member-owned news co-operative delivering local, life-giving news would someday spring up in...
View ArticleHow Can Periscoping Support Generative Journalism?
Periscope, now named since the original app, Meerkat, was purchased by Twitter; is a new app blasting out of the social media scene. Periscope allows anyone to live-stream from his or her phones to...
View ArticleInterview with New Scoop member, Peter Block
New Scoop: Why did you, a citizen of Cincinnati, join a grass roots news co-op in Calgary? Peter Block: I want to support every radical effort of citizens to reclaim their community and the common good.
View ArticleNew Scoop Member’s Working Pot Luck
It was a good night, all the food groups were covered in the potluck and in the conversation. There was the delicious randomness of potlucks – vegetarian loaf, bruschetta, fresh bread, brie, samosas,...
View ArticleCalgary’s Generative Journalism Co-op Continues to Draw Interest, Support
The willingness of half a dozen people to join the New Scoop interim board is one indication of the appetite for an alternative news platform in Calgary. Launched in early 2014, New Scoop is unique for...
View ArticleJumping in the Deep End
Last week, over thirty curious participants gathered in the United Way office to explore the concept of generative journalism with its originator, Peter Pula. Peter, founder and CEO of Axiom News in...
View ArticleWhat Generative Journalism Sounds like
On February 26, 2015 over 30 participants gathered to learn from Peter Pula, founder and CEO of Axiom News, about Generative Journalism. The poem includes footage filmed during the day and dialogue...
View ArticleNewScoop Goes to Cuba!
What do President Obama, the Rolling Stones and Generative Journalism have in common? They all went to Cuba for Spring Break!
View ArticleToot-Toot!! We’re making waves!
Hope and possibility is stirring in Calgary as a Generative Journalism co-op called NewScoop YYC draws an array of new talent sensing a life-giving space in which to step into their gifts and animate a...
View ArticleThe Sky is Falling and it is Blue Blue Blue!
Hmm . . . A pause . . . I am usually fairly removed from the craziness of world events. For better or worse, I am pretty well anchored in my own small world with its’ limited radar scope for incoming...
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