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The Future of Journalism
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Norms in newsrooms across the United States are being upended thanks to deep polarization, a racial reckoning, and the pandemic. Hallmark journalistic traits like neutrality a...
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America’s Founders didn’t envision activist groups mobilizing on social media and disinformation spreading across the internet. Thanks to the web, new threats to democracy — l...
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This session considers the importance of trust, and a healthy distrust, in the well-being of a democracy and the role of the press in this equation drawing on the report of th...
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Rural America has come to the nation’s attention. But much discussion in the media and coffee shops, at conferences and dinner tables, relies on incorrect or no data, largely...
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The public optimism that came with the launch of social media a decade ago has settled into a wariness that we might instead face a long, grueling daily fight for truth and fa...
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James Madison would be horrified to see how social media has helped unleash populist passions.
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Rebecca Blumenstein on gender, journalism, and protecting democracy through news.
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As consumers increasingly get their news online, and many news outlets shift from advertising-based business models to digital subscription-based business models, what role sh...
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It is no secret that leaders, at home and abroad, have a problem with journalists. Rants against news organizations and individuals punctuate conversations in Europe and Asia...