The future of news is happening where no one is looking » Nieman Journalism Lab:

I spend a lot of time in Haitian and immigrant communities across the United States. In Brooklyn, Miami, Chicago, and the Midwest, I keep seeing the same thing: the people keeping their communities informed aren’t reporters. They’re the pastor who delivers immigration updates before the sermon. The barber who streams local politics on Facebook Live. The neighbor who translates every school notice and distributes it through five different group chats. The teacher who explains American bureaucracy to families who arrived last week. The WhatsApp moderator running a rumor-control operation that outperforms the mayor’s office.

I know many people who, if I shared this article with them, would get nervous. It comes from a decade of disinformation campaigns by people claiming to be independent journalists. Fair.

But this is our reality. American newsrooms have fail us. Regular folks are filling the gaps. And I think they’re doing a good job, more often than not.

It’s a shorter walk from inexperienced to experienced journalist, than it is from corporate mouthpiece to independent voice.