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"Americans have record-low trust in the media. They’re reading traditional news
less. Platforms, too, have broken up with news organizations, making it harder
for them to attract readers to their stories. Many 20th-century media companies
are outmoded in a landscape where independent sites, influencers, and
podcasters are finding large, passionate audiences, especially among adults
under 30. Surveying this landscape recently, my colleague Helen Lewis wrote,
unsparingly, “The ‘Mainstream Media’ has already lost.”
I feel the same way. We are living through a period of deep distrust in
institutions, which many Americans feel no longer serve their interests. There
is a palpable anger and skepticism toward corporate media, and many have turned
to smaller publications or individual creators whom they feel they can trust,
even if these groups are not bound to the rigor and standards of traditional
outlets. Those who reject traditional news sources feel that something needs to
change and that legacy media organizations must find ways to reconnect with
audiences, listen to them, and win back their trust. The question is where to
begin.
Last week, I came across a paper by Julia Angwin. Angwin is an award-winning
investigative reporter and the founder of the news organizations
the Markup
and
Proof News. She’s known for her data-driven reporting on privacy,
surveillance, and algorithmic bias. As a recent Harvard Shorenstein fellow,
Angwin spent a year studying journalism’s trust crisis and how the media might
reverse the trend. She argues that the industry can learn a lot from the
creators and YouTubers who not only have found big audiences online, but have
managed to foster the very trust that the mainstream media has lost. Because of
this work, Angwin is in a unique position to diagnose some of the problems in
the traditional media ecosystem while, crucially, understanding the work
necessary to produce great journalism. I wanted to talk with her to get a sense
of what the media can learn from the creator class."
Via
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
