How journalism works and why it's breaking - Interview with Professor Mike Socolow




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Summary: Mike Socolow is an associate professor at the University of Maine and a Fulbright Scholar at the News and Media Research Center at the University of Canberra. He has written for a number of print and newspaper outlets as well as CNN. We talk about how the business of journalism has changed and why understanding how the news is made explains a lot about why it's been broken lately. Layoffs! Retail collapse! OJ Simpson! Justin's vicious bias against television news! Twitter! The longevity of radio and more!