Miss: Stop the Presses
If you’ve never read Salt Lake Magazine, you might think it’s no big deal that the magazine laid off most if its staff. Culture, arts, food—you can find that stuff in other places. But think again; the magazine is a piece of a larger takedown of traditional media and you won’t recognize it until it’s too late. Before a bold decision to go nonprofit, The Salt Lake Tribune was on the brink. But there aren’t many billionaires willing to take that kind of leap of faith for the future of journalism. Jeff Bezos certainly wasn’t, as he stripped the Washington Post to its bare bones. “For the first time, social media has displaced television as the top way Americans get news,” the Nieman Lab reports. Too many local news organizations are closing each week, according to The Objective. Government officials are threatening, using legal means and limiting access to make their siloed points without pushback. And while the media is reaching younger people via video, the country can at least be assured by the 60% who still read the news—at least for now…