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“The shorter the distance between our neighbors and our news, the stronger our community.”
A predictions playlist: “The media landscape is overrun with toxic narratives and polluted information not because our systems are broken, but because our systems are working.”
Predictions and looks back.
“In 2019, I hope that newsrooms will take this anti-algorithm stance to the next level by turning a critical eye to their own behavior.” Angèle Christin
“Major global efforts by tech companies to collaborate with the news industry will have matured to a point at which their effectiveness should be broadly judged.” Steve Grove
“While a concerted effort from politics, science, and journalism, as well as the civil society, is needed to find solutions to these thorny and contested issues, journalism in particular stands out as being the central chess piece.” Jonas Kaiser
“In many ways, these are basic things — standards of journalism that have been around for centuries — but in today’s media environment, they are beginning to matter to readers and publishers more than ever.” Matt Skibinski
“The bad guys — the fake-news makers, bots, trolls, and scammers — will gladly take over the community organizer roles we leave vacant. They’re pretty good at this sort of thing.” Mandy Jenkins
Even the most digital-native publishers cannot resist the siren call of a tote bag. But a membership pitch sounds different coming from a public radio station than from a private company with a billion-dollar valuation.
“These moves may hurt the firms’ finances, but they would also demonstrate serious and lasting commitment to limiting their platforms’ usefulness in political manipulation campaigns.”