Katharina Buczek
“[The industry is] trying to diversify newsrooms and points of view. I can see conglomerates and individual people/operations really trying there, and I think it’s important,” one woman with between eleven and twenty years of industry experience said.
“Despite financial and funding difficulties, at the top of newspapers and news organizations, excellent investigative reporting is still happening and making a difference,” one man with more than twenty years in the news industry said.
And numerous journalists are proud of the industry’s relentless coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, which helped inform countless crucial decisions nationwide.
Nonetheless, with so many journalists worried about possible press restrictions being imposed in the United States, Americans should be concerned.
Like any industry, news media is not perfect. But, it is the backbone of our democracy and strives to ensure that Americans are never left uninformed.
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