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Ken DoctorDecember 19, 2018

Newsonomics: 18 lessons for the news business from 2018

From paywalls to politics, pipes companies to public radio, the Post to The Post, podcasting to partnerships, and the press to a president.

There is no magic — you’ve got this

“It was and always will be about serving your readers and now viewers, listeners, users and continuing to do so by adapting journalism fundamentals to ever-evolving contexts and challenges.” Millie Tran

Say it with me: Racism

“We are not in the hint business; we are here to report facts, including the difficult facts of racism.” Errin Haines

Publishers come to terms with being Facebook’s enablers

“We need to learn from the mistakes *we made* and collectively build better guardrails for the industry, ensuring that we don’t make these mistakes with large platform partners again.” Matt Karolian

We are responsible for how we use our power

“We must collaborate on rewriting the power dynamics between newsrooms and each other, our audiences and those we seek to hold accountable.” Heather Bryant

Mapping the local news ecosystem — with scale but detail

“In addition to seeing from 30,000 feet, we also need to be able to zoom in and know a journalism landscape as it exists from the vantage of those who live there.” Sarah Stonbely

Agree we’re partisan — for the democratic system

“Our prism of partisanship as the fundamental way to view the world is dangerously myopic, blinding us to the real workings of power, and causing us not to ask the right questions.” Heather Chaplin

Fighting the reality of deepfakes

“This technology is evolving so rapidly that as quickly as we can find ways to counter it, its creators can adapt it to make it more convincing.” Rubina Madan Fillion

The news is dying, but journalism will not — and should not

“It is losing its cultural relevance after almost two centuries — and thereby its commodity value.” Hossein Derakhshan

From news fatigue to news avoidance

“Our biggest concern is that this will play out unevenly, perpetuating, or even increasing, existing inequalities.” Ruth Palmer and Benjamin Toff

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