Journalism

Michelle Strutzenberger

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Much of the time we at Axiom News feel like exiles in the wilderness for the alternative news ecology we’re trying to create here.

Michelle Strutzenberger

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It was the kind of deeply heartwarming, unanticipated outcome we love to hear about at Axiom News.

Michelle Strutzenberger

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My children and I are reading a book my father wrote about his experiences in several Central American countries. The sense of mission, values and adventure that drove him shines through, stirring our anxieties and longings. I am convinced we will be thinking and acting differently in the days and years to come as a result.

Camille Jensen

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There are many things I could write about after attending Greenpeace’s Digital Mobilisation Skillshare: the smart, passionate people I met (I’ve already written about some of them here), the lively debates on how to mobilise more people to change the world, or the social energy of Spain, where on the first evening I witnessed protests of a failing economy and government corruption.

Social Enterprise Showcase
From fair trade art to movie theatres to games inspiring kids to save the planet, social enterprise forms a rich mosaic in Canada. Enterprising Non-Profits has launched a news service to capture this diversity. Read more.
 

Journalism

‘Sharing successes is a positive way to engage more people in the effort to bring about social change’

The British Columbia Co-operative Association (BCCA) has a lot of member success stories and important information to share with its members, partners, stakeholders and the public, and the organization, which has more than 80 B.C. member co-ops and credit unions, is launching a news program to aggregate these stories.

Social enterprise program to build social enterprise ecosystem in Canada – one story at a time

This week the first news articles of a new Canadian online media service will hit the wires. The articles are coming from a newsroom operating on behalf of Enterprising Non-profits Canada (ENP-CA), a unique, collaborative program that promotes and supports social enterprise development and growth in Canada. The intent for the newsroom is to help build a healthy social enterprise ecosystem in the country, ENP program manager David LePage says.

News team based in Peterborough, Canada makes WorldBlu list for seventh time

For some of the 51 organizations named to the 2013 WorldBlu list of democratic workplaces, there's simply no other way to conduct business, operate a workplace, or serve a client.

Briefs

Axiom News Joins Iowa Community-building Conversation

Axiom News CEO Peter Pula joins a conversation in Hiawatha, Iowa this week on community building. Facilitated by thought leaders Peter Block, John McKnight and Walter Brueggemann, the conversation was started in April with a two-day gathering. A structure to help advance this work will be created during the gathering this week. More

We Recommend

Environmental activist and journalist Bill McKibben challenged fellow journalists at a recent conference to see climate-change reporting as the ultimate test of journalism’s value. "We'll find out whether the journalistic method was a good idea or not . . . whether it serves the early-warning function we need it to serve or not,” said McKibben. He concluded his presentation with the point that finding out ways, without much money, to stand up to large amounts of money, is what the best journalism has been about from the beginning. "It’s figuring out how to take power and status quo and put reality in its face and knock it down a peg or two," he said, adding that the natural outcome of good journalism is to make people care and "go do something about something." More

Editorial

The so-far slow moving story of business evolving into a way to organize human effort explicitly for the good of society and planet has been narrated in these pages for a little over a decade. We are a long way from those first whispers of social capital and corporate social responsibility.