Publishing in a Polarized World

Why It Matters

Council on Foreign Relations

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4.2 • 876 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

A free and independent press is at the core of many democracies. But threats to the safety of journalists abound worldwide, and the rise of generative artificial intelligence has raised concerns about the future of media. At the same time, more people have access to high quality news now than perhaps ever before. Where does all this leave the state of the current media climate? In this episode, Host Gabrielle Sierra and Foreign Affairs Editor Daniel Kurtz-Phelan talk about the future of journalism, and whether political polarization presents a challenge to nonpartisan publishing. Dan Kurtz-Phelan (Executive Editor, Foreign Affairs) For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/publishing-polarized-world

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0:00.0	Hello everybody. So you my dear listeners may know that
0:07.4	C. F. R. publishes Foreign Affairs magazine and for years it's been required
0:11.8	reading for policymakers both here at home and abroad
0:15.1	Foreign Affairs also publishes a daily stream of web content on global
0:19.5	developments of the Foreign Affairs
0:27.0	Foreign Affairs interview.
0:29.0	So in honor of World Press Freedom Day being this month, we thought we would do something a little bit different.
0:35.2	A Why It Matters, Foreign Affairs, Collaboration.
0:39.2	I'm Gabriel Sierra, and for this special episode of Why It Matters, I'm sitting down with the editor-in-chief of Foreign
0:45.3	Affairs magazine, Dan Kurtz-Feylen, to discuss the state of global press freedom and the challenges
0:51.6	of publishing in a polarized world.
0:57.0	Dan, welcome to why it matters.
0:59.0	Thank you so much, really glad to be here.
1:01.0	This has been a long time coming yeah seriously the world
1:04.8	has been asking you know and here we are delivering so I just kind of want to kick off
1:09.7	and say in honor of World Press Freedom Day which happened this month and in honor of World Press Freedom Day, which happened this month, and in honor of the pretty
1:16.0	wild news cycle we're in, the media environment were in.
1:19.6	If you had to assign it a grade, what grade would you give the state of press freedom globally at this point?
1:27.6	You know, I think it's a really complicated picture because on the one hand, you know, we know the incredible challenges and threats to
1:35.1	journalists working around the world today. The obviously most extreme
1:39.0	examples are journalists in prison, whether you know that's
1:42.6	Evangirch in Russia or lots of journalists whose names we probably don't know or
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