Trump’s election laid bare structural flaws in our news and information systems. As mainstream news media sensationalized and trivialized what was at stake in the elections, social media amplified ...
Victor Pickard
Victor Pickard is an associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the editor (with Robert McChesney) of Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights and the author of America’s Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform (2014). 
Wither(ing) Journalism?
The journalism crisis continues. Yet, as so often happens when social problems require structural reform, once the alarm bells fell silent—as they did after the sudden 2008–2009 downturn—our sense of ...