A Pitch for Why Journalists Need to Fight

<p dir="ltr">What would it take to actually fix America&rsquo;s broken journalism industry? Using rural North Carolina as a petri dish, the podcast <em><a href="https://sceneonradio.org/the-news/">Scene on Radio</a></em> spent their latest season, called &ldquo;The News&rdquo;, diagnosing how American journalism is failing the public: collapsing local newsrooms, corporate consolidation, an information crisis nobody seems able to solve.</p>

<p dir="ltr">In the final episode of &ldquo;The News&rdquo;, host John Biewen and co-host Chenjerai Kumanyika turn to solutions: how can good journalism survive, and what is the vision for a new age of robust, public interest journalism?</p>

<p dir="ltr">You can hear the full season of<em> <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scene-on-radio/id1036276968">Scene on Radio</a> </em>wherever you get your podcasts.</p>

<p dir="ltr"><em>Question Everything</em> is a production of <a href="http://www.kcrw.org">KCRW</a> and <a href="http://www.placementtheory.com">Placement Theory</a>. Follow us on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/questioneverything.podcast">Instagram</a>: @questionverything.podcast. And don&rsquo;t forget to sign up for our <a href="http://questioneverything.substack.com">newsletter</a>.</p>

<p>Guests:</p>

<ul>

<li>John Biewen, co-host of <em>Scene on Radio</em></li>

<li>Chenjerai Kumanyika , co-host of <em>Scene on Radio</em></li>

<li>Les High, Founder and publisher of The Border Belt Independent</li>

<li>Victor Pickard, co-director of the Media, Inequality &amp; Change (MIC) Center at the University of Pennsylvania&rsquo;s Annenberg School for Communication</li>

</ul>

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