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David Westphal on the Future of News at the FTC

David Westphal is the former Washington Editor for McClatchy Newspapers and joined USC Annenberg as executive in residence. He spoke today at the Federal Trade Commission’s future of journalism workshop. Below are his remarks. Westphal and his colleague Geoffrey Cowan also published an excellent article in the Online Journalism Review today.

Check back at SaveTheNews.org where we'll be posting more commentary and interviews with speakers at the FTC's journalism event.

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