We Need to Fix the News Media, Not Just Social Media—Part 3

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This blog post addresses how the business side of journalism needs to evolve to maintain sustainable news production necessary for a healthy democracy. I discuss the basic business models for supporting journalism that have endured throughout the last few centuries of technological change, how these may be successfully adapted to the 21st Century, and what policies would facilitate the transition to these new models. Since no one model is likely to be uniformly successful (and the collapse of the newspaper industry provides an ample lesson on the dangers of relying on a single model), both the news industry and policymakers must experiment and support multiple approaches.

[This is the fifth blog post in a series on regulating digital platforms]


We Need to Fix the News Media, Not Just Social Media—Part 3