Journalism Is a Public Good and Should Be Publicly Funded | U.S. journalism needs to be treated as a “public good” like roads, schools and bridges

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/journalism-is-a-public-good-and-should-be-publicly-funded/

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I'm sure this will make the media landscape of the USA even more helpful:

> CNN: “a couple hundred” staffers lost their jobs
> Gannett: “roughly 200” employees were laid off, just months after hundreds of others were laid off.
> The Washington Post: just announced the end of its Sunday magazine, laying off the 10 staffers who ran it.
> Protocol: shut down last month, laying off its entire staff.
> Vice: has been laying off employees in small-ish chunks spread out over many months, which has helped spare them bad headlines.
> ABC News: seems like they’ll be making some layoffs early in 2023.
> NBC News/MSNBC: seems like they’ll be making layoffs early next year, as well.

A recent article by @parkermolloy : https://www.readtpa.com/p/dark-winter-media

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