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Finally finished listening to 'The News' @SceneOnRadio
All I can say is: yet another brilliant season exploring another absolutely crucial and urgent topic AND offering ideas HOW TO CHANGE our broken systems.
Big thank u to the whole team!
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