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Budget and workforce cuts. Loss of local news. Accusations of fake news. New platforms and changing habits. Journalism is facing a crossroads. As media institutions lose their funding, Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser invited professors Victor Pickard, co-director of the Media, Inequality & Change Center, and Duncan Watts, director of the Computational Social Science Lab and co-director of the Center for Media, Technology, and Democracy, to discuss the role of journalism in our democracy.
By Annenberg School for CommunicationBudget and workforce cuts. Loss of local news. Accusations of fake news. New platforms and changing habits. Journalism is facing a crossroads. As media institutions lose their funding, Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser invited professors Victor Pickard, co-director of the Media, Inequality & Change Center, and Duncan Watts, director of the Computational Social Science Lab and co-director of the Center for Media, Technology, and Democracy, to discuss the role of journalism in our democracy.