How To!: Unbreak the News
Slate Technology
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About five or six years ago, host Amanda Ripley started noticing that her normal news diet left her feeling depleted and depressed. She tried mixing up her news habits, even avoiding it for awhile, but nothing helped. It felt like a shameful secret. Shouldn’t journalists love consuming the news? She began to wonder, is it me....or is it the news itself? On this episode of How To!, the first of two parts, we’ll hear from several of our listeners who feel the same way. We’ll also talk with Nicole Lewis), Senior Editor of Jurisprudence at Slate, and a longtime reporter on the criminal justice beat; and David Bornstein), co-founder/CEO of the Solutions Journalism Network), and former contributor to the New York Times’ Fixes) column. Together they’ll discuss how the news became so broken, and how we can put it back together again.
Resources:
Fear of Rampant Crime Is Derailing New York City’s Recovery) by Fola Akinnibi and Raeedah Wahid
I stopped reading the news. Is the problem me — or the product?) by Amanda Ripley
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