I am strangely relieved that the quirky building where I attended high school has been torn down.
We’ll be working on how to restore trust in everything long after Trump is out of the White House.
Five questions for Imagination Gap author Brian Reich, who says our big innovations are mostly pretty trivial.
It’s time for the news business to show some humility and embrace the culture that it is a part of, not above.
The legitimate U.S. press now must re-write its rules of engagement or risk failure. And we can’t afford that.
There’s no pretense about the problem it’s solving. It’s just there to be there.
America feels broken – really broken, not just tweetable broken. So I feel broken too.
I believe in the social purpose of journalism. I believe in the financial one, too. Mostly, I believe in viable news organizations as vital instruments for knowledge and change, both here and throughout the world.
Adjustments to U.S. tax policy should make it easier for social entrepreneurs and philanthropies to launch and finance non-profit journalism startups. Good luck to them. Raising capital and sustaining news startups, regardless of tax status, will still be difficult.
Incrementally changing their broken business models won’t save legacy publishers. They need to build an audience-centric approach to serve their communities and make money.