What’s Really Killing the News Media? w/ Victor Pickard

Paris Marx is joined by Victor Pickard to discuss the continued layoffs in news media, and how they are symptomatic of a deeper, structural crisis in journalism.

Victor Pickard is Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at University of Pennsylvania. He’s also the author of Democracy Without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society.

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The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation and produced by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Paris will be speaking in Christchurch • on February 4 and Wellington • on February 8. • Victor wrote for Niemen Lab • about the need to divorce news and capitalism, and argued for public newspapers in the Washington Post • . • In the US, two-thirds of newspaper jobs, or 43,000 journalists • , have been lost since 2005. • Robert McChesney and John Nichols propose a Local Journalism Initiative • . • Police raided a newspaper • in Kansas on August 11, 2023, setting off a major scandal that’s now seen the police chief suspended.

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