More Perfect Union Action is the nonprofit entity behind More Perfect Union, which describes itself as “an Emmy award-winning advocacy journalism nonprofit.” Faiz Shakir is listed first on its masthead.
Stated mission
The organization’s stated credo is “Building power for the working class,” and it sets out three things it means by that:
- To “speak directly to young, working class Americans where they are online by reporting on the real struggles and challenges of the working class from a working class perspective,” and to “connect those problems to potential solutions.”
- To “report on the abuses and wrongdoing of corporate power” and to “hold accountable the ultra-rich who have too much power over America’s political and economic systems.”
- To “embolden and empower the working class to engage in building our democracy for the betterment of all working Americans.”
It describes its subject matter as “politics, policy, labor, business, and economics news through a class lens.”
Relevance to digital political discourse
More Perfect Union is an instance of an advocacy organization constituted as a newsroom: it states its purpose as advocacy openly rather than claiming neutrality, and its stated distribution strategy is to reach its audience “where they are online” — that is, native social video rather than a publication of record. It also runs an in-house training programme, MPUniversity.
Sources
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More Perfect Union. About More Perfect Union. Source for the quoted credo "Building power for the working class," the self-description as an Emmy award-winning advocacy journalism nonprofit, the three-part statement of what the mission means, the description of covering politics, policy, labor, business and economics "through a class lens," and Faiz Shakir's presence on the masthead.