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Good journalism’s demand ‘problem’
The Columbia Journalism Review takes on a familiar trope – the scarcity of attention – and riffs on it in relation to journalism. Attention—our most precious resource—is in increasingly short supply. To win the war for our attention, news organizations must make themselves indispensable by producing journalism that helps make sense of the flood of…
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Contemplating the ‘crisis’
In case British readers were wondering what journalistic resources they could rely on to keep abreast of the current situation in the financial markets, here’s my advice. You don’t need to! There really is no point in following events you have no possibility of debating, influencing or changing (see Downs‘ An Economic Theory of Democracy).…