Americans have been able to know what troops at war are facing, and make informed decisions about the war’s cost, because a free press has been able to tell the story − good or bad. Can it still?
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As businesses race to adopt AI, you might worry that the experience and expertise you’ve built up has become a lot less valuable. But you still have more control over your future than you think.
Underground reporters could be among the last bulwarks against unchecked power.
Public broadcasting regularly sends out alerts related to extreme weather and emergency news – but Trump has had these media outlets in his sights for a while.
Public broadcasting has long been a target of conservative Republicans.
Donald Trump has lost popularity in the past few months – but how much is his voting base being maintained by media support?
Public media can’t replace everything that’s been lost during journalism’s economic crisis. But it has plugged some major holes, particularly at the local level.
The precursors of today’s public media programs consisted of professors giving lectures about history and finance.
Pundits decried the Supreme Court justices for not focusing on Donald Trump’s conduct when they heard oral arguments in Trump’s immunity case. But a legal scholar says they were just doing their job.
Tucker Carlson and his employer, Fox News, had an incredible understanding of what their audience wants: a kind of authenticity that is not genuine but instead manipulative.
Calling media organisations ‘government-funded’ risks turning people away from reliable sources of information.
The local news crisis is more than a problem of shuttered newsrooms and laid-off journalists. It’s a democracy crisis. And public radio can help fix it. But it needs more money and staff to do that.
Public scorn in response to a news story about how to cope with stressful news ignores a fact: The news can take a mental and psychological toll on a person.
Contrary to what some think, US public broadcasters are well-funded. Public radio stations bring in US$1.3 billion in annual revenue – most of it generated from their audience.
From the beginning, National Public Radio vowed that it would speak with ‘many voices.’
Without credible news and information, a healthy democracy is not possible.
Nonprofit fundraisers have long relied on matching funds to encourage giving without knowing if they work. Research suggests one way to make the most out of challenge gifts from big donors.
Trump’s campaign challenges the conventions of politics and liberal democracy. So maybe the time has come to question how journalists practice objectivity.
We thought the phone hacking scandal would chasten News Corp. We were wrong.
If you want to see how the market failure model works, look across the Atlantic at PBS and NPR and be afraid.
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Associate Professor of Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor, School of Communication; Executive Editor, Investigative Reporting Workshop, American University School of Communication
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Research Fellow at the Centre for Media Transition and head of New Narratives, a US-based not-for-profit newsroom and media development organisation working in low income countries., University of Technology Sydney
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Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Harvard Kennedy School
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