Three major broadcast news networks cut away from President Donald Trump’s press conference last week because of his on-air lies about election fraud. CBS, ABC and NBC cut away from his live stream to fact check the claims. Fox and CNN carried the entire press conference but reported afterward that the president had no evidence to back up his accusations about the election.
Many media critics applauded the fact checks and refusal to air misinformation as a positive change in journalism. As the nation prepares for a presidential transition, host Frank Stasio explores how the Trump administration has changed the mainstream news media and which of those changes could stick with Gina Baleria, Jon Allsop and Pete Vernon. Baleria is the host of the podcast “News In Context” and an assistant professor of journalism, media writing and digital media at Sonoma State University. Allsop and Vernon are both freelance journalists. Vernon is the former author of the Columbia Journalism Review newsletter “The Media Today,” and Allsop is the current author of that newsletter.
Then Stasio looks to what the future of journalism could look like withCierra Hinton. She is the co-director of strategy and operations at Press Onand the executive director and publisher of Scalawag. She explains what movement journalism is and what role it can play in the future of the institution.
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