This is just a quick re-cap of my speaking notes from a gathering that Dawn Buie, Matt Thompson, and I pulled together at the tail end of the Independent Press Association’s conference earlier this year. I felt that it was important to re-visit these thoughts, and to publish them here, as Magazines University approaches next week. A lot has happened since that gathering in San Francisco — a gathering that brought together people from Briarpatch, This Magazine, The Tyee, Maisoneve, and New Internationalist — and there are several conversations underway toward both a national Canadian gathering to explore these possibilities and several smaller events at a regional level to ensure that the necessary work happens at the grassroots and grasstops… but more on that later. First, the (slightly edited) transcript of that conversation: read more »
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