Newspapers are essential to our basic rights as citizens. They enable us to be informed, seek truth, and find common ground in our community through stories. Teresa Parker has learned that it takes serious investment — financial and spiritual — to try to tell the real stories of your community, and she invites you to join her in her quest to rebuild local journalism. Teresa Parker is the Publisher at the Provincetown Independent. She is currently working with a growing group of adventurous reporters, photographers, and artists to take back our newspaper and make it truly local, not “Wicked Local.”

Teresa is dedicated to building a homegrown news business, one that will enliven our democracy and create local jobs. It’s not designed to make anybody rich, but it is designed to make our lives richer.

The Independent's vision is to find stories that bring us closer to our neighbors and to this Outermost place. They strive to celebrate all that is good on the Outer Cape, in a place that’s proud of its tradition of welcoming separatists and strangers. Her reporting covers the four towns on the final stretch into the Atlantic: Eastham, Wellfleet, Truro, and Provincetown—as well as the Cape Cod National Seashore. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]

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