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New podcast explores innovative solutions for section journalism’s future
The archetypal play of a caller podcast created by the Institute for Media and Public Trust, “Exploring Journalism’s Future,” is now available connected YouTube, I Heart Radio and other podcast platforms. In a caller episode, Lauren Gustus, CEO and enforcement exertion of The Salt Lake Tribune discusses the challenges of journalism today.
Founded successful 1871, The Salt Lake Tribune, the salient paper successful the area, was owned by assorted backstage owners until 1997, erstwhile it was sold to firm interests. In the aboriginal 2000s, the paper manufacture faced instability with the emergence of the Internet, and successful 2010, it was sold again to a New York-based hedge fund. Just a fewer years later, amid fiscal struggles, layoffs gutted the newsroom.
In 2016, Utah businessman Paul Huntsman bought the embattled newspaper. Even with Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage, fiscal instability threatened the semipermanent occurrence of the Tribune, prompting Huntsman to use for nonprofit status. In precocious 2019, The Salt Lake Tribune became the archetypal bequest paper successful the U.S. to alteration into a nonprofit entity. The caller backing operation added philanthropic donations to the existing advertizing and subscriptions, bringing a renewed committedness to community-focused journalism.
“We are much transparent than astir quality organizations, successful portion due to the fact that we person to be,” Gustus said connected Episode 4 of the podcast. “It feels much collaborative, much unfastened than what you whitethorn spot successful different newsrooms. We are regularly asking radical to enactment america and to stock their treasure, which is not insignificant. We’ve go a batch much disciplined astir that strategical program and astir the worth that we tin present to Utah.”
Jim Boren
This communicative of reinvention and endurance is 1 of the transformative journalism narratives examined connected the caller podcast “Exploring Journalism’s Future.” The podcast engages successful conversations with thought leaders successful journalism nationwide. It opens a dialog that analyzes the challenges to the accepted section media exemplary and explores solutions done innovative backing and contented models.
The podcast is the brainchild of Jim Boren, enforcement manager of the Institute for Media and Public Trust. He observed that galore section quality organizations are struggling to beryllium profitable arsenic quality depletion shifts to online. Many organizations are failing, leaving immoderate cities and communities nationwide without section quality outlets.
“We person this breached concern exemplary wherever the advertizing that utilized to prop up astir newsrooms is nary longer astatine the forefront,” Boren said. “Big-tech really has scooped that off…Google, Facebook and others. And present we’re trying to look for ways successful the manufacture to beryllium capable to money a newsroom of journalists.”
Betsy Hays
“Exploring Journalism’s Future” is hosted by Professor Betsy Hays and edited by Fresno State media, communications and journalism alumnus and Dean’s Medalist Lucca Lorenzi.
“The docket is for america collectively to fig retired a mode to heighten journalism, to turn successful places wherever determination are quality deserts oregon quality mirages, which is erstwhile it’s astir a desert,” Hays said. “One of the missions of the podcast is not for it to beryllium a speedy dependable wound but for it to beryllium 45-minute-ish conversation. So, we truly get into the weeds connected immoderate of these concern models.”
The Institute for Media and Public Trust astatine Fresno State is committed to improving media literacy and enhancing nationalist spot successful journalism. The institute promotes ethical standards, transparency and accountability successful media practices, and supports investigative and nationalist work journalism.
Lucca Lorenzi
The institute besides sponsors the Journalists of Color grooming program that seeks to summation diverseness successful Valley newsrooms and the health attraction reporting fellowship dedicated to producing broad sum of captious wellness issues impacting the Valley.
