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“Sometimes as journalists, we move around with an attitude that the community is just not going to [understand] us….I think that’s a huge obstacle to being able to do this better.”
“I really believe in the power of people to organize and advocate from the bottom up to create some solutions to this. I don’t think these solutions are going to come out of commercial media.”
Free Press is suggesting an analog to a carbon tax on fossil fuels — but atoning for the attention economy’s perils instead of climate change.
“The flip side of disinformation is trust.”
Meanwhile, efforts continue in New Jersey to get stations to commit their earnings from the auction to local news initiatives.
The advocacy group Free Press is encouraging public broadcasters to invest their earnings back into local news and information.
Free Press’ News Voices: New Jersey is meant to be “community-driven as opposed to being newsroom-driven.”
Freelancers, photographers, and activists all have a harder time getting that laminated press badge than full-time, words-based employees at established news organizations, according to this survey of more than 1,300 journalists.