How To!: Have a Healthier News Diet
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🗓️ 6 September 2022
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Summary
In the second of a two-part episode on reimagining the news we continue our conversation with Nicole Lewis, Senior Editor of Jurisprudence at Slate, and a longtime reporter on the criminal justice beat; and David Bornstein, co-founder/CEO of the Solutions Journalism Network, and former contributor to the New York Times' Fixes column. The discussion picks up where we left off on how journalists can regain the trust of their audience, and how news consumers can find stories that inspire hope, agency and dignity — our democracy may depend on it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, the question was how does the news make you feel and of course I think we're all |
| 0:08.1 | in constant fear of the music because I always seem so negative and I would like to see |
| 0:14.7 | like the other side of me like the good news maybe something's positive but also a solution |
| 0:19.8 | to the problems. |
| 0:21.3 | You're listening to how-to where finding solutions to hard problems, well that's kind of our |
| 0:29.7 | jam. |
| 0:30.7 | I'm Amanda Ripley and as promised we're going to pick up where we left off today on how |
| 0:34.6 | to unbreak the news. |
| 0:36.6 | What can journalists do to regain trust with the public? |
| 0:40.4 | And what can the public do to stay up on current events while staying sane? |
| 0:46.2 | If you haven't heard part one from last week I highly recommend you give it a listen. |
| 0:50.6 | It helps explain why 4 out of 10 Americans are actively avoiding contact with the news, |
| 0:57.0 | including sometimes yours truly and it turns out a lot of you. |
| 1:24.6 | Thank you to all of you who called in. |
| 1:26.8 | I feel your pain and the depth and volume of feelings that you have about this topic |
| 1:31.6 | made us decide to do two episodes on fixing the news. |
| 1:36.0 | Last time we focused more on the news industry itself, the need to do rigorous reporting |
| 1:41.4 | on solutions not just problems. |
| 1:44.5 | There's more to say about that but today we're also going to focus on what you the consumer |
| 1:48.9 | can do to filter out news you can't use while still being an engaged informed citizen. |
| 1:56.8 | Joining us again is David Bornstein of the Solutions Journalism Network and Nicole Lewis, |
| 2:01.4 | an editor at Slate on the Legal Beat. |
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