'They see their role as fighting for social justice'
'They see their role as fighting for social justice'
A conversation on the media with independent journalist and documentary filmmaker Leighton Woodhouse
Appears in this episode
On the Lean Out podcast this year, we’ve talked a lot about the failings of the mainstream media, and the reasons why the press has lost the public’s trust.
But for the month of December, we’ll be focusing on one of the bright spots of the media landscape — and that is the independent press. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be speaking with some of the journalists that I most admire, who are doing fantastic work, at Substack and elsewhere.
We kick off this series today with Leighton Woodhouse. He’s an independent journalist and documentary filmmaker in Oakland, California. His Substack is called Social Studies. (This episode was recorded last week, before the Twitter Files revelations.)
Leighton Woodhouse is my guest, today on Lean Out. Transcript to come tomorrow for paid subscribers.
'They see their role as fighting for social justice'
Thank you for also focusing on the positive. Part of what is 'not working' about legacy media is the tendency to focus on anger, fear, greed, and other dramas. It's important to put some energy into the things we want more of. Independent media is one of those, for me. We need more in Canada, which is why I support your Substack. In case I don't get to it before years' end: thank you. Please keep showing up, and doing this work.
Nice to hear a podcast saying as much in 22 min as many do in 90.