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Focal Point: Episode 3
The media is in crisis. Plummeting revenues are hitting the industry hard and the ramifications include job losses, fewer reporters, threats to journalist diversity, more ads, and compromised media quality. Why have things gotten so bad, could this situation have been averted, and what forms might future journalism adopt to survive?
Three media experts join host Adam Greenfield to discuss these questions. Alan Mutter has occupied high ranks at the Chicago Sun Times and the San Francisco Chronicle and is now managing partner of Tapit Partners where he combines his two loves of journalism and technology. Alan is best known for his popular media blog "Reflections of a Newsosaur." Linda Jue is director of New Voices in Independent Journalism, a national initiative working to build a diverse pool of independent investigative journalists. David Cohn is the founder of Spot.Us, a website that uses micro-financing to fund reports by independent journalists.
For more information on this and other episodes, see the Focal Point page (http://becadigi.ning.com/page/focal-point).
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