This week on Forward, founder and CEO of Good Information, Inc. and Courier Newsroom,

Terima Gowin joins us to talk misinformation and what we can do about it this week on Forward.

It's my pleasure to welcome to Forward Civic Entrepreneur, the founder and CEO of Good Information,

and the Courier Newsroom, which we're going to talk about at like Terima Gowin. Welcome, Terra.

Thanks so much for having me, Andrew. It's great to be here.

Oh, Terra, you're working on a problem. So we'll retrace your steps so people have a sense of

your background, which is fascinating. But you're working on a problem that's near and dear to my heart,

which is the fact that local news is dying. You have over 2,000 local papers that have gone out

of business. You probably know the number is better than I do. And they've probably gotten worse since

I looked at it. So what is the situation with local news? Yeah, it's really, really bleak. Andrew,

as you mentioned, it got significantly worse during the pandemic. Is that going to imagine?

Sure. The shattering of newsrooms. And, you know, writ large, this has been happening for over a

decade now. And it's really the result of local news organizations having relied on one specific

stream of revenue, advertising, traditional advertising in their newspapers, local and regional

advertisers. And, you know, as the advertising industry got entirely imploded and revolutionized

by Big Tech and social media platforms. Also known as Craigslist and Facebook, but continue.

Yes, exactly. Local news organizations who were already struggling to get by with resources

couldn't keep up, couldn't evolve their business models quickly enough. So what's been happening

is they're either shutting down or sometimes worse, they're getting bought up by hedge funds

that are buying them up for different pieces, selling them off, just focusing on how to monetize them

and laying off the journalists and not really investing in the mission any longer of these

of these organizations and institutions. And the really scary part, I mean, it's just terrible

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