On the Lean Out podcast, we’ve spent much of the past year investigating the collapse of the news media and the decline in public trust. My guest on today’s program argues that the industry is at a crossroads, but media bosses are unwilling to meet the moment, and seem determined to continue on the same trajectory — even if it means the death of their institutions.

Ryan Zickgraf is an American journalist and a columnist at Compact Magazine. His new essay is “Journalism’s Slow Death Threatens Democracy.”

Ryan Zickgraf is my guest, today on Lean Out. Transcript to come for paid subscribers.

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