America Is Due For A Real Reporting Revival

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🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Ryan Wolfe, director of the Center for Excellence in Journalism at The Fund for American Studies, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to reflect on the state of the American media landscape, discuss the recent independent journalism bombshells out of Minneapolis, and examine the real reporting skills required to make journalism great again.

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0:00.0	And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:21.3	I'm Matt Kittle's senior elections correspondent at The Federalist.
0:25.1	And as always, your experience Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge.
0:30.4	As always, you can email the show at Radio at the Federalist.com.
0:35.1	Follow us on X at FBRLST. Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your
0:40.3	podcast and, of course, to the premium version of our website as well. Our guest today is
0:46.1	Ryan Wolf, Director of the Fund for American Studies Center for Excellence in Journalism.
0:52.9	Ryan joins us for a conversation on fixing the fourth estate. That
0:57.9	includes reaching young journalists with programs like TIF's new journalism excellent fellowship.
1:06.6	Ryan, thanks again for joining us on this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
1:10.9	It's great to be with you.
1:12.6	You know about.
1:13.1	Let's begin there.
1:14.2	Let's talk a little bit about trying to reach young journalists, because that is becoming
1:20.9	more and more important when it comes to fixing the fourth state, because I will tell you, as a long-time toiler in the fourth estate,
1:32.1	I am oftentimes ashamed of the fourth estate.
1:35.0	I am really, really not only disappointed, I've gone beyond disappointed.
1:39.6	I'm sick to my stomach and a lot of the stuff that I'm seeing out there in journalism today.
1:45.3	Tell us what this journalism excellence fellowship aims to do.
1:51.9	Yeah, absolutely.
1:53.0	Well, I agree.
1:54.4	You know, I think the media is at a point where things are starting to change in lots of ways, you know, historically speaking,
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