Last year was one of the worst in recent memory for layoffs across media. Job losses in digital, broadcast and print news increased almost 71 percent from 2022, according to a recent report. And 2024 has started off with big cuts, too. One media professor says the current situation amounts to a "systemic market failure," and he proposes a bold new plan to fix it.
Plus, Axios' Sara Fischer with her top reasons for journalism's decline; and Karen Rundlet, CEO of the Institute for Nonprofit News, on the local and nonprofit news efforts giving her hope.
Guests: Victor Pickard, professor of media policy and political economy at the University of Pennsylvania.
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