Why is journalism failing democracy? | openDemocracy Live

In rich countries, local media is struggling to survive. The people who produce and consume the news are increasingly elites living in big cities. Why is this happening, what does it mean for democracy and what can we do about it?

Hear from:

🔹Nikki Usher: Senior fellow, Center for Journalism and Liberty, Open Markets Institute; associate professor in journalism, University of Illinois; author of ‘News for the Rich, White, and Blue: How Place and Power Distort American Journalism’ (2021), ‘Interactive Journalism: Hackers, Data, and Code’ (2016) and ‘Making News at The New York Times’ (2014)
🔹Jonathan Heawood: Executive director of the Public Interest News Foundation, senior research fellow at Stirling University and author of ‘The Press Freedom Myth’
🔹Peter Geoghegan: Editor-in-chief, openDemocracy
🔹 Chair, Mary Fitzgerald: Director of information democracy, Open Society Foundations; former editor-in-chief, openDemocracy

Timestamps
0:00 – Intro
1:20 – How is place and power distorting journalism?
2:55 – Philanthropy and journalism
5:22 – Peter Geoghegan on setting up a local investigative journalism outfit
11:18 – What is the Public Interest News Foundation trying to do?
17:14 – Potential solutions
19:53 – How can we think about things differently in the US context?
23:03 – Being able to do deep dives in ways that many organisations can’t do
27:08 – The question of objectivity
32:00 - What should we be paying attention to and supporting? What is hopeless?
35:32 – Who are the gatekeepers of journalism?
45:42 – How do we equip local communities to address injustice themselves? E.g., Freedom of Information Act
47:49 – Journalism as a different dimension of one’s citizenship
51:15 – Closing remarks

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