Years after the death of its newspaper, Richmond's primary source of local news is a website funded by Chevron, the oil giant whose refinery looms over the city's horizon.

Richmond is now a laboratory for online journalism startups, including the one owned by Chevron, whose massive refinery looms over the city and has been the focus of ongoing concerns over toxic emissions.

The future of journalism appears to be moving towards corporate propaganda outlets instead of independent investigation, be it WaPo and Bezos or the Richmond Standard and Chevron.

  • @reddig33
    2•4 months ago

    In Austin, we get better news from local blogs and freebie tabloids than we do the major paper or TV channels.