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"Accountability journalism to me means identifying people or organizations that have a significant amount of power and then trying to hold them accountable for things that they are doing, either by uncovering those things or highlighting those things.

he role of the journalist, or trusted messenger in this new world, is as a lamplighter, a guide – becoming the must-read or -watch source pointing us towards clarity in a time of confusion.

So AI is destroying traffic, ripping off our work, creating slop that destroys discoverability and further undermines trust, and allows random people to create news-shaped objects that social media and search algorithms either can’t or don’t care to distinguish from real news. And yet media executives have decided that the only way to compete with ... See more

It is said that objectivity is what we need more of, but that’s not what people want. What people want is advocacy.

A very small minority of voters may ever encounter the carefully prepared written material that many professional journalists produce at any newsroom anywhere.

Consumers hardly ever realize it, but they hold traditional news media to vastly higher standards of accurate and ethical behavior than practically every other information source they encounter, even when they’ve started relying on those other information sources instead of the news media. It’s good consumers hold journalism to high standards. The ... See more

We’re really trying to build a modern 2020s culture of how a news company operates, which is very engaged and fairly flat. We have a hierarchy in the newsroom to make news decisions, but it’s otherwise a fairly flat organization of mission-oriented, collegial people who actually work in an office.