First Aid for the Local News Emergency with Local News Accelerator Mackenzie Warren (Northwestern University)
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation and the media. I’m your host Eric Schurenberg, long time journalist and media executive, now the founder of the Alliance for Trust in Media
The news business has been in freefall, as every listener to In Reality is aware. The plunge has been steepest in local journalism. We lose two local news outlets a week, on average. Half the counties in America have only one news outlet or none at all.
Dousing that five alarm fire is the mission of today’s guest, Mackenzie Warren, director of the Local News Accelerator at Northwestern…
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