Tucker Carlson and his employer, Fox News, had an incredible understanding of what their audience wants: a kind of authenticity that is not genuine but instead manipulative.
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Calling media organisations ‘government-funded’ risks turning people away from reliable sources of information.
The local news crisis is more than a problem of shuttered newsrooms and laid-off journalists. It’s a democracy crisis. And public radio can help fix it. But it needs more money and staff to do that.
Public scorn in response to a news story about how to cope with stressful news ignores a fact: The news can take a mental and psychological toll on a person.
Contrary to what some think, US public broadcasters are well-funded. Public radio stations bring in US$1.3 billion in annual revenue – most of it generated from their audience.
From the beginning, National Public Radio vowed that it would speak with ‘many voices.’
Without credible news and information, a healthy democracy is not possible.
Nonprofit fundraisers have long relied on matching funds to encourage giving without knowing if they work. Research suggests one way to make the most out of challenge gifts from big donors.
Trump’s campaign challenges the conventions of politics and liberal democracy. So maybe the time has come to question how journalists practice objectivity.
We thought the phone hacking scandal would chasten News Corp. We were wrong.
If you want to see how the market failure model works, look across the Atlantic at PBS and NPR and be afraid.
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Professor of Journalism, Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, School of Communication; Executive Editor, Investigative Reporting Workshop, American University School of Communication
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Professor of Communication, Cardiff University
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Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Harvard Kennedy School
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Associate Professor, Washington State University
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Assistant Professor of Economics, Tufts University
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Professor of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine
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Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Utah
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Professor in Media and Communication, University of Huddersfield
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Chair and Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Research Fellow at the Centre for Media Transition and head of New Narratives, a US-based not-for-profit newsroom and media development organisation working in low income countries., University of Technology Sydney
