The rise of informal news networks“Once the goal is no longer to recreate news organizations as they existed in the past, but rather to ensure that reliable news and information flows — that there is a place in people’s lives for deliberation and debate — then possibility blossoms.”
By Heather Chaplin
Breaking old habits“If hospital and prison chaplaincy work taught me anything, it’s that, unfortunately, crisis is a precursor to this kind of change.”
By Andrea Faye Hart
The darkness that democracy dies in is here“This election was decided in no small part by voters who believed a number of false things about the candidates and the country. The Fourth Estate has failed.”
By Carrie Brown
There’s no “Trump Bump” (and that’s good!)“We don’t need to sustain our astonishment or tap into our own panic and worry every time he says or does something heretofore unfathomable. (After all, it’s all fathomable now?)”
By Hillary Frey
Journalists build the AI tools they actually want to use“Journalists who were and remain rightfully skeptical of AI and its impact on our profession — from eliminating jobs to adding to the public’s souring on our trustworthiness — are starting to build stuff. Good stuff.”
By Retha Hill
An authoritarian anti-journalism playbook“The best, most rigorous journalism in the world is powerless to effect change unless it reaches and is trusted by the wider public — however profitable it may be to serve a niche, hyper-engaged subset of the public.”
By Benjamin Toff
The year we stop talking about “AI”“Rather than worrying about AI taking away jobs or isolating us further in society, the best media products will help us connect and be more human.”
By Burt Herman
Journalism faces a reckoning, in Soviet style“Much like the state-controlled media systems of the late Soviet Union, the mainstream media has become the nomenklatura of our era — privileged, insular, and increasingly out of touch with the realities of the populations they claim to serve.”
By Izabella Kaminska
