Mass media panic! Jason Clayworth at Axios shares an Iowa perspective on why local focus is key.
BuzzFeed is gone. Fox News fired Tucker Carlson. CNN fired Don Lemon. The Des Moines Register lost 70% of its subscribers. Two papers close every week in the USA. As journalism faces a crisis, why did Axios just hit one million subscribers? I ask Iowa journalist Jason Clayworth.
Axios is growing rapidly by focusing on local content and local stories. Clayworth answers tough questions about the state of media like: is media bias to blame? Did polarization go to far? Do people crave local voices? How does he handle his own bias?
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