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Several weeks ago, I got to have a great conversation with South Carolina reporter Nick Reynolds about recent attempts to grow more “liberal” media spaces in the state. Reynolds is a good reporter and a good writer, and often provides the kind of coverage and analysis that an informed public needs to effectively engage with its institutions.

He was working on a piece focusing mainly on the launch of The Arena, which has consciously branded itself as a “progressive media company,” but he wanted to talk to me about the newsletter as an example of other attempts to create an alternative to a heavily “conservative”¹ media space.

Reynolds’ whole piece is well worth the read, but I thought I would share part of our conversation here, too:

More left-leaning media in South Carolina, where it does exist, tends to come about more organically. One of the more popular left-leaning bloggers in the state is former Columbia-area schoolteacher Steve Nuzum, a South Carolina native and a former organizer …