Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism

Local news in global decline - part 3

20 June 2019
The Philadelphia Inquirer newsroom in 2009, when one of the largest U.S. metro daily newspapers filed for bankruptcy protection. (AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek)

Local newspapers have been eviscerated over the last 15 years as social media and the internet have destroyed their business model. Yet all is not doom and gloom.

In the third part of our series on the global crisis in local news with the Index on Censorship, a look at new business models to support local journalism as well as how robot reporters might yet save their human counterparts. We'll also get a look at efforts to keep "deep fake" videos from going viral on the internet and further distorting our public conversation.

Joining the program:

Producer: Edom Kassaye
Visual editor: Megan Smaltz

Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism.
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