Shaydanay Urbani and Nancy Watzman Local collaboration is key to slowing misinformation Hossein Derakhshan Mass personalization of truthīenjamin Toff Beltway reporting gets normal again, for better and for worse Garance Franke-Ruta Rebundling content, rebuilding connections Mike Caulfield 2021’s misinformation will look a lot like 2020’s (and 2019’s, and…) Nonny de la Pena News reaches the third dimensionĬeleste Headlee The rise of radical newsroom transparencyįrancesco Zaffarano The year we ask the audience what it needs Kate Myers My son will join every Zoom call in our industryĪriane Bernard Going solo is still only a path for the few Nico Gendron Ask your readers to help build your products
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Jonas Kaiser Toward a wehrhafte journalism Gordon Crovitz Common law will finally apply to the Internet Stefanie Murray and Anthony Advincula Expect to see more translations and non-English content Raney Aronson-Rath To get past information divides, we need to understand them first Zainab Khan From understanding to feeling Taylor Lorenz Journalists will learn influencing isn’t easy Talmon Joseph Smith The media rejects deficit hawkery Jennifer Brandel A sneak peak at power mapping, 2073’s top innovation Mandy Jenkins You build trust by helping your readersĬhristoph Mergerson Black Americans will demand more from journalism Ståle Grut Network analysis enters the journalism toolbox Julia Angwin Show your (computational) work Moreno Cruz Osório In Brazil, a push for pluralismĬandis Callison Calling it a crisis isn’t enough (if it ever was) Whether the public comes to view these as the sad cries of a man unable to accept reality or as the beginning of the greatest comeback story in American history will rely entirely on the press.ĭelia Cai Subscriptions start working for the middle He will probably hold rallies, he will inevitably use Twitter to play armchair quarterback with the Biden presidency, and he’s likely to continue to claim that the election was rigged against him. If there’s hope of avoiding such a fate, journalists must be deliberate in how they cover Trump once he leaves office. By doing this, the press will risk delegitimizing the actual government in favor of a shadow president temporarily unable to enact policy until an expected January 2025 return to power. Since Trump has tens of millions of devoted followers and the potential to make another run for president in 2024, it’s easy to see how mainstream news outlets will find themselves in a position to justify treating him as a leader in temporary exile as opposed to a powerless retiree. Mainstream media organizations need to quit Trump cold turkey, but won’t, potentially giving rise to a new sort of Shadow President Trump.
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He may leave office on January 20, but he won’t truly be out of power until the press stops treating him as an inherently newsworthy figure. And just as the sun isn’t going anywhere soon, neither is Trump. Just as Earth could not survive without the sun, the American press has developed a similarly dependent relationship to Trump. Since announcing his run for president in June 2015, Trump has been the center of the news media’s solar system. (Obama didn’t criticize Trump by name until October 2018.) And much in the way that Trump didn’t offer a concession at all after losing the 2020 election, it’s a safe bet that he’s not planning to press pause on his political commentary in 2021.įor years, people have asked what the press will do once Trump is gone. Much in the way that offering a gracious concession speech is meant to help heal divides between supporters of winning and losing candidates, so too is the informal tradition of outgoing presidents not immediately criticizing their successors. “And I think the American people will judge, over the course of the next couple of years, whether they like what they see and whether these are the kinds of policies and this is the direction that they want to see the country going.” “I think it’s important for us to let him make his decisions,” Obama said. During a press conference on November 14, 2016, then-President Barack Obama made clear that he had no intention of trying to hamstring President-elect Donald Trump, and that once out of office, he’d step back from public life for a period of time.