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“As on-demand audio and podcast listening increase in 2020 and beyond, we’ll see new audiences take shape, more experiments, and deeper stories made possible by the medium.” Kerri Hoffman
“A generation of young journalists was raised in front of computer screens, copying and pasting stories for quick successes in clicks and reach.” Alexandra Borchardt
“Although people today hate ‘the other side,’ I remain convinced that once they catch on to the game, they’ll hate being pawns even more.” Dannagal G. Young
“It wasn’t taught to reporters yet that every story is ultimately about power, so they didn’t single power out as a thread that could help people quickly ascertain what was going on and what they could do about it.” Jennifer Brandel
“Though people generally could stand to be better informed than they are at the moment, when is too much news, well, too much?” Seth C. Lewis
“Such spaces are escape hatches from the horse-race election cycle: People are looking for those escape hatches, and they’re looking to create them too.” Joanne McNeil
“The high pitch of outrage, constant outrage, is exhausting and overwhelming — for our readers, for the citizens of our communities.” Masuma Ahuja
“A group of hackers and law-enforcement officials ran a simulation of what an Election Day cyberattack might look like. One of the hackers’ first moves? Hacking trusted news websites and social media accounts, allowing the bad guys to spread false narratives quickly.” John Keefe
“Broadcasters have an opportunity to gain some of the local market share being ceded by newspaper companies who failed to confront their own crisis before it was too late.” Matt DeRienzo
“There were multiple examples of serious journalistic commitments in 2019 which point the way forward.” Fiona Spruill