*My* chief concern is that many readers no longer seem to care who’s presenting “the news” at all — a fact that hustlers of all stripes both exacerbate and capitalize on.

What is a news hustler? Generally speaking, I think of this as an umbrella term for the various independent influencers, streamers, “intelligence monitors,” researchers, commentators and alt media shops — insert air-quotes as needed — who seek to make clout or money off digital news without contributing reporting or analysis to it.