On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, we discuss the state of the media, The Objective, an independent non-profit newsroom that examines systems of power and inequity in journalism, coverage of vulnerable communities in the US, and Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World’s Richest Country, co-edited by Alissa Quart.
Poynter called 2023 a bloodbath for the news industry. There were more than 20,000 layoffs in the media industry in 2023, according to Challenger, Gray and Christmas. What can we expect in 2024?
Guests:
Alissa Quart, executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and author and editor of many books, including Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World’s Richest Country, Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America and Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
Gabe Schneider, reporter and editorial director at Los Angeles Public Press and co-founder of The Objective
Web Resources:
Poynter: 2023 was the worst year for the news business since the pandemic
Nieman Lab: Journalism investment comes to Los AngelesNAME
