This season we’ve explored how the news media are failing the American people and our democracy. In this concluding episode, we look at solutions — how to help good journalism survive, and how we might…
Many people in the United States and around the world view the rise of Donald Trump and his MAGA movement as a grave crisis. At the same time, most Americans are angry with the news…
Ever thought about whether America’s overwhelmingly corporate, for-profit news system is working as it should? It didn’t have to be this way. In the 20th century, reformers fought for a more democratic and more accountable…
The early history of the news in Europe and the U.S. offers surprising lessons about the best traditions of journalism, and about the news we need in our own time of crisis. By John Biewen,…
Scene on Radio requests and receives an independent analysis of its own journalistic “biases.” We then return the favor, examining the examiner. The exercise leads to revealing insights into the muddled ways people often think…
For generations, many on the political right have claimed that major news media in the U.S. have a pronounced liberal bias. Is it true? And why does it matter? We take a fresh look. By John Biewen with…
Many people know that the journalism industry is struggling financially, especially at the local level. But the disastrous depths of that crisis, and its impact on communities and American democracy, are not as well understood….
Americans have access to a flood of news, and yet we’re in a deep information crisis. What’s really wrong with the news media? Is it what we think it is? And what about us news…
Welcome to Season 8: The News. Just about everyone is mad at the media, and Americans seem helpless to solve our problems, in large part because we have no shared narrative and few shared facts. Producer…
As always, this season of @SceneOnRadio is a great one. Anyone interested in (perceived) bias in journalism and the loss of local news should give it a listen.
We've spent more than a decade testing one answer to this in New Jersey. NJ News Commons is a network of local outlets that share training, coaching and content instead of competing for scraps alone.
NYT headlines really have been atrocious during the Trump 2.0 era and @Sulliview nails it here: https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/the-yin-and-yang-of-the-new-york
New episode: As it turns 250, the American republic is in a precarious state, a danger to itself and others.
Can we blame the state of our news media for THIS?
With @catchatweetdown, @pastpunditry, @froomkin, @mtomasky
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