JournoDAO

Welcome

JournoDAO is a professional network and incubator working at the intersection of Web3 and traditional media and news. We aim to use the powers of Web3 and decentralization to rebuild local news and restore trust in journalism. We’re a decentralized organization currently focused on building an open-source technological stack for independent media outlets and journalists seeking to preserve, support and share their work using emergent technology.

Our Mission

Access to reliable, fact-based local information is the foundation of a thriving democracy, yet communities are increasingly starved of trustworthy news sources in our algorithmically-driven media landscape. Our solution is to build open-source, community-owned information networks that put control back in the hands of local citizens, replacing predatory recommendation engines with transparent systems that serve community interests rather than corporate profits.

  • Restore Hyperlocal Information Networks: Unbiased and fact-based information networks are necessary for communities to thrive and for our democratic experiment to survive.
  • Open-source algorithms: The era of predatory and biased recommendation engines is over. Community-owned algorithms can help deliver a truly balanced, highly-valuable news diet.
  • Community Owned: The best way to prevent extractive media businesses is to give ownership back to the community.

Our Tools

Our methodology rests at the intersections of journalism and blockchain. For almost 4 years, we’ve explored a multitude of approaches to restoring journalism at the local level in a manner that is both sustainable and regenerative. We use emergent technology and direct educational outreach to achieve our mission. Here’s a breakdown of our tech stack:

  • Blockchains: Distributed ledger technology powers all of our technology and our supports our dedication to sovereignty, permanence and unopinionated tech.
  • Seed Protocol: Seed Protocol is a decentralized, open publishing framework designed to empower individuals and communities to share data without centralized control. It enables anyone to publish any type of content to a shared network, fostering permissionless collaboration and user-driven discovery.
  • PermaPress: PermaPress is an open-source client built on the Seed Protocol, enabling individuals to publish and share content securely and independently.
  • AI: [how do we use AI to amplify our mission? ]
  • One to One Conversations: We are all journalists and producers at heart and care deeply about the adoption of emergent technology by our peers. We know how overwhelming technology is for most (we know because it used to overwhelm us too), and love to have QA conversations over coffee or via Zoom to help our colleagues understand why emergent tech is so vital to their work and society at large.

Our Founding Team

We are a collective of former journalists and media producers who gather weekly, sometimes daily, to move our mission forward. At the core of the org are four founding members who also work at the heart of the blockchain and AI industries. Our larger organization encompasses a global community of journalists, storytellers and media enthusiasts who simply wish to restore what was lost to the various threats journalism has faced over the past several decades.

Founding Supporter NFT Holders

Our Community

Our community is filled with news hounds, journalists, media enthusiasts, academics and overall amazing humans who are interested in supporting local journalism through emergent technology. We keep things pretty informal and there’s a couple of ways to join us:

  1. Join our Telegram channels and hop into a conversation that resonates.
  2. Attend our bi-weekly Town Halls to talk about progress from the DAO or present your own projects or contributions. Zoom links to TH are shared on our General TG Channel.
  3. Attend our weekly working sessions where we dedicate time to spitballing the builds for Seed Protocol and PermaPress

Past & Current Partnerships

  • Online News Association
  • Media Party
  • RePublic
  • Diamond DAO
  • T2 World

Past Grant Awards

  • Multiple Gitcoin Rounds
  • Ocean Protocol
  • Livepeer

Our Collabs & Talks

JournoDAO plays an active role in both educating media professionals about web3 technology and exposing web3 audiences to the necessities of supporting journalism through blockchain tech. We appear on podcasts, conduct keynote talks, help with blockchain investigations and our founding team are all active participants in impact DAOs outside of the media industry.

Podcasts

Keynotes & Presentations

Impact Orgs Our Founders Are Active Within

  • OpenCivics
  • LexDAO
  • Greenpill
  • EthereumLocalism
  • PDX DAO
  • Allo.Capitol
  • RegenHub Boulder/GFEL
  • Transformative Impact Summit
  • Learning Economy
  • 0Fxw3

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