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“It isn’t just about Bronny and the billions on the line in the battle between streaming platforms. High school basketball is designed for — and consumed by — the younger audience coveted by incumbent media companies and brands.” Dan Shanoff

Formalizing newsrooms’ battle against disinformation

“I predict that newsrooms will put in place and uphold formal editorial policies that demand all forms of communication — tweet, headline, article — never present falsities without first clearly stating the truth.” Craig Newmark

Race and gender aren’t a 2020 story — they’re the story

“This reality must also be reflected in our nation’s newsrooms, where two-thirds of political journalists are still white men and women are too often still covered as a special interest group.” Errin Haines

We’re already consuming the future of news — now we have to produce it

“Going forward, we will resource and produce articles, videos, and now Stories as our third core output. This is a significant and required shift in order to actually meet the audience where they are.” Cory Haik

AI can’t conjure up an Errol Morris

“AI is set out to kill most of the remaining newsroom jobs. But it can never replace how Errol Morris, Bob Woodward, or Michael Barbaro construct long-form affective narratives — which is the future of journalism.” Hossein Derakhshan

The end of “stick to sports”

“‘Stick to sports’ is embedded in the economic DNA of sports media. In today’s economically perilous time for media, the idea of avoiding topics that could alienate half of your audience is alluring.” Brian Moritz

Public media stops trying to serve “everybody”

“The truth is that when we make audio news and content — both in public radio and beyond — for an imagined ‘everybody,’ we’re just making it for white, cisgender, heterosexual audiences of a particular class and education, and centering their experience and perspectives.” Cristina Kim

All journalism should be service journalism

“Reporters need to think more like teachers, developing new structures and forms that reinforce new information, that place it in the context of what has come before and what may come next.” Jeremy Olshan

The year to organize, unionize, and fight

“You cannot have one hand in the pot while you try to control the narrative with the other.” Monique Judge

Make better products if you want to reach Gen Z

“If news organizations can’t commit to hiring young people to tell their own stories, they at the very least should productize content in a way that appeals to Gen Z.” Nico Gendron

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