Guest commentary by Mike Fancher: A tipping point for journalism

Source STL Today on July 15, 2011 0 Comments Ideas
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Mike Fancher, RJI, Reynolds Journalism Institute
"Guest commentary: A tipping point for journalism," STL Today, July 15, 2011.

The long-awaited Federal Communications Commission report on the state of America's news media landed with a big thud, sort of like the Sunday newspaper of old hitting your front porch.

Mike Fancher, RJI, Reynolds Journalism Institute
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Initial reactions to the recent FCC report have uniformly praised its exhaustive diagnosis of the problems facing local news reporting. But there also has been disappointment that the report didn't offer remedies.

Can that really be a surprise?

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Topics Citizen & Community News, RJI Fellows, RJI in the News
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