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to support their favorite news
organization. Others will balk at
handing over their money at all.
And in terms of challenges for
the overall industry, that’s not to
mention the swirl around “fake
news” and echo chambers and
mistrust and lack of diversity
and ever-changing distribution
platforms, etc. - you get the
idea: publishers and broadcasters
aren’t exactly experiencing their
glory days in terms of profits and
growth.
But wait!
There’s good news, too. And much MICROSITE | VIDEO All of that is to say that while
of it comes in the form of areas the ways in which we consume
like enhanced and impactful data journalists alike with the security news and the ways in which it
reporting, new ways to tell stories and scale of the blockchain and is gathered and distributed will
through immersive storytelling cryptocurrency. Basically it’s about continue to evolve, I hope and
like VR/AR, more people coming news content by the people for the believe that the fundamental
online and on mobile in developing people. With an emphasis on trust tenets of journalism will remain
countries who expect news as part and security. It’s an emerging and perhaps even thrive in a
of their experience and share an technology in an increasingly new era of connectivity and
appetite for quality content that complicated space but the promise community.
separates fact from fiction with is there to find something outside
minimal friction. And there are the traditional way of connecting And that’s news we can all use.
many exciting startups emerging communities and readers with
from accelerators like Matter.vc what matters in a way that doesn’t
in the US, which has consistently sacrifice quality or trust.
churned out thoughtful and
bright new companies to tackle
a range of issues in the media
from investigative reporting to
monetization to messaging apps
around artificial intelligence.
It’s part of the reason I co-
founded the News Lab during
my six years at Google. It’s also
part of the reason I joined Civil,
which is a revolutionary approach
to combining decentralized
news content from readers and
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