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Archives: December 18, 2020

Stop being polite and start getting real

“Perhaps the gulf between journalism and audiences isn’t about technology or paywalls — it’s that the person delivering the news doesn’t reflect what I’m feeling.” Andrew Ramsammy

Public radio has a midlife crisis

“Public radio needs to take stock of which parts of its identity it wants to hold onto and which ways of operating need to be left behind.” Tamar Charney

The year journalism starts paying reparations

“Reparative journalism is explicit in its commitment to doing the work of racial justice, and by extension — without apology — social justice.” Meredith D. Clark

The Objective StaffDecember 18, 2020

The media reckoning that came and went

Plus: The New York Post works to destroy trust in journalism, and Public Media for All.

The media rejects deficit hawkery

“The good news is that mainstream journalism has been made more empathetic, and less tolerant of hypocrisy, by the Trump era.” Talmon Joseph Smith

Building growth through tastemakers and their communities

“The clearer the editorial profile of a particular niche, the higher the potential to build a loyal and paying audience around it.” Pia Frey

The press will risk elevating a Shadow President Trump

“Mainstream news outlets will find themselves in a position to justify treating Trump as a leader in temporary exile as opposed to a powerless retiree.” Parker Molloy

Indigenous issues get long-overdue mainstream coverage

“We must intentionally elevate the voices that have not always been the loudest.” Doris Truong

A global consensus around the kind of news we need to save

“Things are moving, and consumers are part of it, too. They are finding real news, sticking with it, and putting their dollars behind it.” Sue Cross

Blogging is back, but better

“The primary difference is that these blogs, these magazines, these whatevers, will be built and guided by the individual creators for their audience, not by the executives they once reported to.” Nicholas Jackson

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