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Own the narrative without exploiting the story.
Open Table Media House is the governed creative, publishing, and production arm of The Open Table Cincy—built to represent recovery as competence, craft, culture, and contribution while protecting consent, rights, and dignity.
Enterprise cluster in development
Concept visualization The purpose
Recovery should be heard in its own voice—and produced with professional discipline.
Too often, people in recovery are spoken about by systems, headlines, or institutions that flatten their complexity. Media House creates a place to tell the truth with craft, consent, and control.
It is not an informal hobby room. It is a governed enterprise cluster that supports public education, impact documentation, creative services, workforce development, and mission-aligned revenue.
Authorized unit types
A creative house that can mature without becoming a creative free-for-all.
Studios and broadcasting
Podcast, video, interviews, educational series, streaming, public conversations, and event coverage.
Kitchen media
Food stories, culinary instruction, partner features, recipes, hospitality content, and documentation of the market-house build.
Records and audio
Music, spoken word, audio production, session management, split sheets, credits, and rights tracking.
Press and publishing
Books, guides, newsletters, curricula, journals, reports, editorial services, and learning media.
Creative services
Branding, design, photography, video, copy, campaign assets, partner deliverables, and production support.
Story lab and documentary
Trauma-informed interviewing, member-led narrative, short film, documentary, visual art, and archive work.
Production gate
Every release moves through a controlled workflow.
Brief
Name the purpose, audience, owner, budget, platform, rights posture, and proof of mission fit.
Consent and protection
Confirm releases, story boundaries, no-film zones, minors protections, revocation terms, and minimum necessary disclosure.
Pre-production
Script, run sheet, call sheet, roles, equipment, access, schedule, and safety plan.
Production
Capture media only within approved locations, roles, and consent boundaries.
Post-production
File naming, edit versions, credits, metadata, fact-check, accessibility, and rights review.
Release gate
Quality, dignity, claims, consent, legal/rights, and executive or delegated approval before publishing.
Archive and measure
Store source files, release records, distribution logs, performance, revenue attribution, and lessons learned.
Story protection
A powerful story is still not ours to take.
Required
- Plain-language informed consent
- A clear right to decline without losing services or standing
- Defined use, platforms, duration, compensation, credits, and ownership
- Extra safeguards for minors and vulnerable people
- Fact-checking, accessibility, and a documented approval chain
- A process for withdrawal or revocation where legally and operationally possible
Prohibited
- Coercing testimony in exchange for help
- Using a person's crisis as fundraising spectacle
- Filming in private, clinical, quiet, or restricted areas without authorization
- Publishing unverified claims or confidential information
- Taking creative rights through vague verbal permission
- Allowing platform passwords, masters, or source files to live in personal accounts
Media and creative inquiry
Tell us what needs to be produced—and what must be protected.
Do not submit confidential client information, raw testimony, copyrighted files, or sensitive records through this general form.