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Journalism is in crisis.
Newsrooms are failing. Investigative journalism is disappearing. Reporters are losing their jobs. Vital stories are not being told. -
Democracy depends on quality reporting.
Real journalism gives communities the information they need to understand our world, hold our leaders accountable and participate in our democracy. -
We need
policy solutions.The crisis in journalism is not just an economic issue, it’s also a political issue. Policy decisions will shape the future of journalism. -
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Welcome to SaveTheNews.org
SaveTheNews.org, a project of Free Press, is leading the search for new public policies to save journalism and to promote a robust free press in America.
In response to the shifting media landscape, there have been a number of important nonprofit initiatives, think-tank convenings, panel discussions and foundation reports on the state of journalism, the impact of technology on newsgathering, and the search for viable new models for the news. more →
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Ongoing Efforts to Map Our Information Needs
At the Free Press Summit: Ideas to Action this past April, nearly 100 participants attended a breakout session to talk about mapping local media ecosystems and meeting the information needs of communities. The session built on the ideas presented in the Knight Commission report, “Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age,” and produced a vibrant discussion that made clear there is a lot of exciting but disparate work happening in this area, and a lot of enthusiasm for making connections between media makers, researchers and communities. You can read a write up of the session here.
As a follow up to that discussion, and as part of the ongoing national conversation about how we map and meet the information needs of communities, I wanted to highlight a few recent projects that are moving the ball forward in local communities and providing very different models for how we can assess and understand a community’s media ecosystem.
more →Journalism for What? A User-First Approach to the Future of News
As we debate the future of news, we need to keep in mind what this debate is really about. We need to ask ourselves, “What is it we’re trying to save, protect or foster?” Or asked another way, “Journalism for what?” Identifying what we mean by journalism and why we care about its future is central to figuring out what solutions might get us there.
The most common response to these questions is that journalism is fundamental for our democracy. It's hard to argue with that, but how does it help guide us toward a new vision for news?
more →Free Press Summit: Ideas to Action
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