Hey Frens,
This is the Geyser team, coming at you with a spicy idea: a grant for proper journalism.
Issue:
Journalism is broken. Independent journalism is emerging with the work of The Rage, Whitney Webb and so forth. They deal with issues like privacy, political corruption, economics, ESG, medicine and many other issues that are not discussed by mainstream media.
The problem is that not many people know about their work and there are very few grant programs that support their work.
Proposed Solution:
Geyser would like to host a Grant supporting independent journalists using 'community voting mechanism'. See here for how Community Voting Grants work.
However, we need more companies to partner up and sponsor this initiative with us. Ideas of more sponsors:
- Stacker news: SN has become a great repository of independent/indie journalism. I think they'd fit in great as sponsors for this type of grant. cc: @k00b
- Bitesize media: A new independent media house that wants to focus on the signal Bitcoin brings to our world. They expressed interest already.
- Bitcoin Magazine: might be interested as well in this effort.
Would love the community's feedback on this idea and propose additional thoughts!