Hi Bucket Listers! I’m writing to you from the LION (Local Independent Online News) summit in Chicago, a gathering of local news innovators and entrepreneurs who are making a difference in communities. It’s exciting to be here among so many big thinkers.
Announcing our Top 5 Guide
We’re doing something different this week. This newsletter is devoted to sharing our plans for the next few months. Besides our free hyperlocal neighborly news that builds community by sharing our stories, this Sunday 9/8 we are launching a Bucket List’s Top 5 Guide. Each member of our team has been curating a guide for you. We’re starting off with Logan Kurtz’s guide to amazing outdoor spaces near Denver. Over the next months, we’ll feature a whole range of topics from film to food to things for kids, dogs and introverts. We also explore where to find house plants, music, arts and crafts and more. Everything is affordable and accessible.
Here’s how you can support this effort. Tell your friends and neighbors about our guide and ask them to subscribe. Share your favorite places with us so we can get a conversation going. And if you know of businesses that want to sponsor mission driven community journalism, we’d love to talk to them. As always if you like what we’re doing, please consider a contribution to keep our work going.
On another note, we are two months away from a very consequential election and Bucket List Community Café is working with MSU Denver to augment our coverage for the Voter Voices initiative that is embraced by 60 newsrooms in the state. We’ve been listening to what you want the candidates to talk about and we’re amplifying your voices by making sure politicians respond to things that matter to you. Not the same old talking points, not the horse race stuff or nastiness that is so much a part of our politics these days.
With that in mind, here is a Bucket List Top 5 List on how to survive up until the election.
- Respect your neighbors. You don’t have to agree. No matter the outcome, they are still your neighbors.
- Be kind. Elections are stressful.
- Get informed. About the candidates. About your community.
- Don’t amplify misinformation. Get your news from trusted sources.
- Register to vote and then cast your ballot.
Award Winning Journalists
Finally, we still can’t get over the fact that we won 14 awards at the Colorado Press Association conference. Our team is made up of university students and recent graduates. They are the next generation of journalists and Bucket List is mentoring them and modeling the skills they will need to succeed. At the LION conference, and every opportunity we get, we are sharing the importance of the apprenticeship approach we offer at Bucket List. Award-winning journalist, Jackie Ramirez, who has now moved on to the next step of her career sums it up.
“Bucket List Community News shows that everyone’s story is important. This internship and the overall approach of Bucket List to journalism has made me find joy in a career that I didn’t want to have initially. I love that Bucket List has character driven stories. I just remember the person I interviewed and their story and it motivated me to want to write about them so that people can identify with them or hear their story because it’s important.”
That’s it for this week, Bucket Listers! Check your inbox on Sunday morning for the first edition of our guide. The guide will be added to our website on Monday morning, but you get to enjoy it first. Thank you for your support and ideas and most of all for your contributions that keep us sustainable. Bucket List is community supported and we can’t do this without you.
AND NOW BACK TO REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING…
Warmest Regards,
Vicky Collins
Publisher/Bucket List Community News
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