Columbia Journalism Review published an article titled ‘What needs to be done to help the media industry?’ which explores how the disintegration of the traditional financial model and the advent of the coronavirus have decimated media’s future, unless we collectively act to support it.
The piece explores the possibility of treating news publishers as non-for-profit organisations, as well as increasing ad revenue and possible government support.
Whichever way publishers decide to move forward, though, without support from the people, freedom of the press will decline, as will public access to truth and information.
Read the full piece here.
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