To borrow a phrase from @josephkieta’s scene-setter here: Let’s be frank. Two years ago I was a casualty of the headwinds to journalism Joe cites. And i root for the current Bee team. Every day /1 https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/article241919031.html

The Bee’s use of alternate funding to get more reporters into your community is an amazing thing. In short, this outfit is not going down without a fight. They continue to do the big stories that no other local news op on nay platform canoe will do (sorry, ABC). /2

*can or will do"* /3

Think about it: This crew is doubling down and doing community-sustaining work two months after their company filed for bankruptcy. The pandemic has drawn readers The Bee, and deservedly so, but the crisis is another body shot to local news /4 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-killing-local-news/608695/

I subscribe to @fresnobee. I wish many, many others would wake up from their "internets should be free" haze and subscribe, too. Good stuff that sustains you and connects you with others -- and spurs to re/action -- ain't free /5 https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article241807661.html

So cheers to my Bee buds @MarekTheBee @TimSheehanNews @JoshuaTehee @BethanyClough @CarmenGeorge @FresnoBeeBob @jimguy27 @BriannaCalix @CraigKohlruss @atomicfly. More cheers to the new talent I didn't have the pleasure to work with. Keep rockin' it. /End