Outlier Media has pioneered a new journalistic model — one that it is collaborative and community focused, Columbia Journalism Review writes. It was started in 2016 by
Sarah Alvarez, a former civil rights lawyer, as an information service on properties people wanted — responses were sent via text message — and has since broadened its service. “I
was not satisfied with covering low-income communities for a higher-income audience," Sarah Alvarez said in 2018. "I wanted to cover issues for and with low-income news
consumers."
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