Fun · Journalism Society · El Paso
The first meeting of El Paso's independent journalism society. Newsletter writers, podcasters, citizen reporters and video makers, in one room to plan the election. Thursday, October 8. Free.
The first meeting
What happens
Who's covering El Paso outside the big newsrooms, and what they're working on. Names and faces, not just bylines.
Every race El Paso votes on, on one wall. Who's covering what, and what nobody is.
Leave with a race or a question nobody else in the room has claimed.
Bring a mailer, an ad or a quote. We run it through the claims-audit tool together, and you leave knowing how to do it on your own.
Who's in the room
No candidates, no campaigns, no party officials, no PACs. Not as guests and not as sponsors.
Bring your politics if you like. The room is for methods, gaps and facts, not endorsements.
Chatham House rule: use what's said in the room, never who said it.
Who's paying: you should ask. Fun covers the room. No one on the ballot, or funding a campaign on it, pays for this room.
Why a society
The ballot map and every claim checked that night go to everyone who came, so the work keeps going after the room empties.
Next: once during early voting, and once after the results.
Who's hosting
An independent audit of how El Paso's Meta data-center deal was covered, and what the coverage missed.
An X Space on the deal, with an advance copy of the book handed out live.
The claims-audit tool you'll run on a real mailer that night.
What to bring
A mailer, an ad, a quote from a forum. A phone works; a laptop makes it easier.
For independents of every kind: newsletter and Substack writers, citizen journalists, podcasters and video reporters. No AI experience required.
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