Dave Askin – Putting the Public at the Center of the Civic Solar System

The B Square Bulletin’s “Total News” framework reimagines local journalism as something more than a factory producing widgets called news stories. It fuses Future, Present and Past into a civic information platform that connects what is coming, what is happening now, and what has already happened. Information systems once kept inside newsrooms become public civic assets—which is a pardigm shift on the scale of the Copernican revolution.