Fundamentally, the Fourth Estate’s paramount responsibility is to provide a public service. So how can we thrive, given compounding challenges — infection, inflation, consolidation, compression, manipulation — have left most newsrooms exhausted and shrunken yet expected to protect democracy on multiple platforms?
In the year ahead, news organizations big and small must help news consumers understand the threats to journalism and implications for our democracy using a time-tested method. Repeatedly and creatively “show, don’t tell” the ways that Big Tech’s dominance of digital advertising have eviscerated the news ecosystem.
Among the tactics we should see more of in 2023:
2023 is the year we adopt regulations and policies and adapt to an evolving media landscape that requires we change and are open to new avenues of monetization and new remedies. To remain relevant and forestall what laid-off CNN media critic Brian Stelter calls “the creeping nature of media obsolescence,” and more amenable to necessary regulatory enforcement. If we’re able to, the future of journalism looks bright.
Jody Brannon is director of the Center for Journalism and Liberty.
Fundamentally, the Fourth Estate’s paramount responsibility is to provide a public service. So how can we thrive, given compounding challenges — infection, inflation, consolidation, compression, manipulation — have left most newsrooms exhausted and shrunken yet expected to protect democracy on multiple platforms?
In the year ahead, news organizations big and small must help news consumers understand the threats to journalism and implications for our democracy using a time-tested method. Repeatedly and creatively “show, don’t tell” the ways that Big Tech’s dominance of digital advertising have eviscerated the news ecosystem.
Among the tactics we should see more of in 2023:
2023 is the year we adopt regulations and policies and adapt to an evolving media landscape that requires we change and are open to new avenues of monetization and new remedies. To remain relevant and forestall what laid-off CNN media critic Brian Stelter calls “the creeping nature of media obsolescence,” and more amenable to necessary regulatory enforcement. If we’re able to, the future of journalism looks bright.
Jody Brannon is director of the Center for Journalism and Liberty.
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