Independent community publishers are helping to restore trust in journalism - but they need support.
Traditional media was left out in the cold years ago due to the advent of technology, meaning today’s news media crisis has been a long time in the making. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward (via The Conversation) By: Patrick White, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) The ongoing, coronavirus-fuelled media crisis has in fact been in the works for more than 30 years. It is not a new phenomenon. In the early 1990s, we saw mergers of major radio networks. The advent of the internet and cable news outlets during the 1990s changed the game and challenged the dominance of news agencies, since audiences had access to live events in real time all the time. The emergence of social media in the 2000s and 2010s continues to transform the role of the media today. The media in crisis is ...
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The writings of Venezuelan scholar Antonio Pasquali contain warnings about how we communicate today.