After years of big wins, bold moves and honest takes, #TheOtherWave is hitting pause 💌 Now? It’s time for a new kind of growth 🍼 I break it all down: the media moves, the milestones and what’s next in my final newsletter for a while. Read more: https://t.co/1xy47L2VaR

From launching @TheGreenLineTO's first-ever pocket guide for city living to breaking our audience records, I’ve learned a lot about what it takes to build something that lasts and why sustainable media has to be community-first. Read more:

After years of big wins, bold moves and honest takes, @theotherwave is hitting pause 💌 Now? It’s time for a new kind of growth 🍼 I break it all down: the media moves, the milestones and what’s next in my final newsletter for a while. Read more: https://t.co/1758o64q5s

🌎🇨🇦With global & local politics more connected than ever, we explore how diaspora communities navigate the threat of foreign interference and the power of belonging in civic life. @JaskaranSandu_, @neeeda & @SabreenaDelhon break it down on Group Chat 🎙️. https://t.co/Kq9hUMbHi5

This month’s edition of @theotherwave is about trust — or what’s left of it 🫣🗞️ Whether you work in a startup newsroom or a legacy outlet, journalism is facing a full-blown credibility crisis. https://t.co/c4HmDk28th

This month’s edition of @TheOtherWave is all about impact (the real kind) 📊✨ https://t.co/iakmWlpYgL

🎬Just announced: The winners of our News Creator Award for Excellence in Independent Video Journalism! The awardees represent a diverse range of media platforms and storytelling approaches, from longform videos on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement to reels challenging

Read our full conversation in this month’s edition of @TheOtherWave. 🔗 Do you support defunding @CBCNews and broader journalism subsidy programs? Against it? In between? Sound off in this thread. 🧵 https://t.co/XsjzwvLbIY

@CJR @PierrePoilievre Although my interview didn’t make it into the CJR story, I figured there was no better time than now to share my nuanced thoughts on @PierrePoilievre's intention to defund @CBCNews and broader journalism subsidy programs.

.@CJR reached out to interview me for an article “about how/if Canadian independent media is preparing for a potential shift to [Conservative Party leader @PierrePoilievre's] leadership.” My thoughts didn’t end up making the final piece, titled “Bracing for Poilievre.” #cdnmedia

My conversation with Lauren Watson (@laur_watso), a Delacorte Fellow with Columbia Journalism Review (@CJR) in my @TheOtherWave newsletter just got a little more real after Prime Minister @MarkJCarney recently called a snap election. 🗳️ https://t.co/XsjzwvLbIY

For more book and media recommendations, check out December’s edition of #TheOtherWave:

I highly recommend reading Pearce’s newsletters, “Journalism's fight for survival in a postliterate democracy” and “Journalism's biggest problems are now what we don't control.”

Lately, I’ve been loving the Substack of Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce), president of the @MediaGuildWest, for his broad yet incisive analyses of journalism industries worldwide.

As a journalism nerd, I’m always reflecting on the current and future state of the industry. https://t.co/xoEQMDV2Cn

🌊 Ryan Y. Kellett (@rkellett) for @Niemanfdn, “Your Audience team is now your Creator team” For more book and media recommendations, check out December’s edition of #TheOtherWave:

🌊 Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) of @UserMagazine, “Prediction markets go mainstream” 🌊 Sam Mintz (@samjmintz) of @Brookline_News, “Communities relearn the habits of local news” 🌊 Francesco Zaffarano (@FraZaffarano) at Will Media, “Focus on the people who elect the populists”

I highly recommend checking out her full prediction, along with these ones by: 🌊 Gabe Schneider (@gabemschneider) of @ObjectiveJrn, “The publisher is always right” 🌊 Adam Thomas (@datatheism) of Evenly Distributed, “Impact investment enters the chat”

...she explains that the gap between mainstream media readers, people who get most of their news through influencers or partisan social media, and people who barely think about news at all will create a schism in how Americans (and Canadians) see the world.

Well, you wouldn’t be alone. @DataSociety research director Alice Marwick (@alicetiara) predicts that the mainstream media will lose its last grip on relevancy in 2025. In Marwick’s @NiemanLab prediction...