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To provide full transparency for readers to understand what we are all about and to foster public trust, we explain our mission and philosophy of the relationship between news and democracy here. This is a news website based in the United States with bureaus in Washington, D.C., along the Gulf Coast in Alabama and Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas, with major plans for expansion into other areas as well as public opinion research and the arts. We are pioneering a new kind of objective public service journalism for the 21st century to help save democracy and the planet.

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We practice a form of objective public service journalism based on a scientific definition of the term that explains what’s going on in the world without all the extremist, two-sided pretense of other for-profit news outfits that constantly push sensational clickbait and treat news as a commodity. We recognize that democracy and capitalism are not one and the same thing.

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We firmly believe that news is so important to the success of democracy that we cannot just sit on the sidelines and profit by being simply a disinterested observer of the direction of public affairs. Just like any other institution in society, the press should be a full participant and “stakeholder” in the success of the local, state and national franchise. As newspapers were critical in communities for decades, now that print newspapers are dying they must be replaced on the web.

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In addition to publishing traditional breaking news stories, news features and editorial opinion columns, we practice what communications historians call “explanatory journalism” or what others call “interpretive writing.” While much of what we do appears to be very similar to the work of traditional newspapers and magazines, we are pioneering a new twist that goes beyond blogging and that we believe gets closer to helping readers understand the “truth of the matter.”

Sometimes that means our writers put themselves into the action of stories like the “new journalists” of the 1960s and ’70s, writers such as Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson. We immerse ourselves in the facts on the big stories of the day.

Sometimes our aggressive, watchdog news reporting has a real world impact. Our on-the-ground reporting helped save Medicaid funding in Alabama, for example, in 2016.

HUGE Medicaid Crisis Looms in Alabama

We also played a key role in stopping fracking in the Talladega National Forest in 2013.

Fracking in the Talladega National Forest is Not in the National, State or Local Interest

And there is no doubt our involvement in and coverage of the special election for the U.S. Senate helped Birmingham attorney and Democrat Doug Jones come out on top over former judge and Republican Roy Moore.

Doug Jones Wins Historic Senate Election Over Defiant Judge Roy Moore

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And we publish on the web only without annoying popup ads or constant paid marketing promotions to try to force people to pay upfront to read our content. We have no plans to put up a paywall. If democracy demands a free press, the public needs a free press it can count on to be there not just for the rich and powerful who can afford to pay for it. The digital divide is a real problem and we believe all people deserve access to news and information on the web whether they can afford to pay for it or not.

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While we do share our links on Facebook and Twitter and send out a daily email with the latest headlines to those who opt-in voluntarily, we never advertise on radio or television. We never use telemarketers to call you at home or on your cell phone. We do not pay for ads on Facebook or Twitter or pay to boost posts, either.

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And unlike Facebook, Twitter and other websites such as Newhouse/Advent Al dot Com that require you to login, we do not collect data on users to share with advertisers. We only monitor our traffic numbers to show how many readers we have.

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The site is the brain child of editor and publisher Glynn Wilson, who has been a news reporter, writer, editor and photographer since 1979 and a videographer since 2010. After working for newspapers in the 1980s and early 1990s, Wilson went back to grad school in the mid-’90s just as the internet and world wide web were beginning to be developed for news. After teaching and conducting academic research for a decade, Wilson got back into newspaper reporting for a brief period in the final days of the daily newspaper in print, writing for some of the biggest brand names in American journalism, including the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor and The Nation magazine.

In 2005, Wilson went independent on the web and started experimenting in the early days of blogging, publishing the Locust Fork News-Journal @ LocusFork.Net. In 2014, after nearly a decade of experimentation, Wilson developed and launched the New American Journal as a national news site from Washington, D.C.

To find out more about our philosophy of exercising the right of a free press to help make democracy and government work — not to just be a disinterested observer of the direction public affairs, but to be a full stakeholder in the success of the national franchise — check out Wilson’s book Jump On The Bus here. A second book and documentary are in the works to show how objective journalism was an American invention that has been perverted by capitalism since the Great Depression.

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