What can journalists do about the Unreality Crisis?

by | Aug 23, 2021

The media isn’t just parroting both sides. The problem is more complex. The numbers are hard for some to fathom. More than six in 10 Republicans think Donald Trump’s presidential reelection was stolen. Half believe left-wing protesters staged the Jan. 6 insurrection...

Let’s get the conversation around trust in media unstuck

by | May 21, 2021

Not everyone sees their values reflected in the news. Here’s how journalists can change that. Journalists — at least good ones — believe they work on behalf of the public. They’re the watchers on the wall; the chroniclers of the events over the next hill; the...

Is local journalism dying? Look closer.

by | Mar 10, 2021

Here are four major challenges to journalism today and four attempts to confront them that are worth watching. “Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit,” wrote Henry Adams. So it is for the news business today. It is fashionable in some quarters to say local...