Public Newsroom #42: Sustainable Newsletter Impact with TBTnews

6:00 pm — 8:00 pm

Are you a subscriber of Chicago’s TBTnews? Never heard of it? Some 65,000 subscribers receive Carl West’s daily newsletter for a regular dose of life within Chicago’s Black professional class from a South Side perspective. West is the media entrepreneur that started TBT (Truth Be Told) News with less than 2,000 subscribers 7 years ago and his base of loyal readers has grown to include Chicagoans from across the city and advertisers that value TBT’s reach enough to make his homegrown news organization financially sustainable. We’ll have West in the Public Newsroom November 30 for a conversation with City Bureau co-founder and editorial director Darryl Holliday on TBT’s model, impact, and history as an independent news distribution source that operates as a member of Chicago’s Black Press with a particularly large, grassroots footprint.

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