The OneSub story, so far…

I’m quite often asked about OneSub — my attempt to fix the news.

Being quite a verbose, tangent-oriented person can make responding to everyone quite time-consuming. So this article is going to serve as a little history primer for anyone who’s curious.

If you have further questions I’m always around here, to answer them.

Why?

Because I believe the following are all equally true:

• Effective public interest news is essential to a functioning democracy.
• Everyone’s opinions are conditioned by the information we consume.
• Diversity of experience & awareness leads to broad-mindedness.
• Attention economics is diametrically opposed to diversity or nuance.
• .. and everything in moderation.

Taking all those things together, I believe that we’ve built a society conditioned by media that we economically incentivise to be polarising.

So I’m trying to build new ways to fund and consume news that try to do a few significant things:

• Deliver alternative funding incentives for publishers & journalists.
• Redistribute media funding deeper into real stories & experiences.
• Broaden readers’ perspectives about the world we share.
• Reduce reader stress & anxiety while improving comprehension.
• … and make news…