About this episode
Paris Marx is joined by Victor Pickard to discuss the continued layoffs in news media, and how they are symptomatic of a deeper, structural crisis in journalism. Victor Pickard is Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at University of Pennsylvania. He’s also the author of Democracy Without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society . Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon . The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation and produced by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry. Also mentioned in this episode: Paris will be speaking in Christchurch on February 4 and Wellington on February 8. Victor wrote for Niemen Lab about the need to divorce news and capitalism, and argued for public newspapers in the Washington Post . In the US, two-thirds of newspaper jobs, or 43,000 journalists , have been lost since 2005. Robert McChesney and John Nichols propose a Local Journalism Initiative . Police raided a newspaper in Kansas on August 11, 2023, setting off a major scandal that’s now seen the police chief suspended. Support the show