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What flavor of press freedom do you want for your society?

A consideration of evolving public policy on the future of journalism The ecosystem of expression borne of the Internet continues its dramatic evolution. Good, bad and indifferent, the Internet has enabled free expression to a near limitless extent. …

Press Freedom

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What flavor of press freedom do you want for your society?
What flavor of press freedom do you want for your society?
Press Freedom

8 min read


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On Free Expression in Our Digital World

The following address was presented at the Tech X — Future of News event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California on June 20 2023. VIDEO of the talk is available here. In 1791, when our First Amendment came to be, one could not have imagined what it…

Free Expression

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On Free Expression in Our Digital World
On Free Expression in Our Digital World
Free Expression

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Jul 7

Considering the Future of News in Our Societies

On the emergence of AI, the consideration of public policy, and addressing the challenge of irrelevance Keynote presented to the annual congress of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publisher (WAN-IFRA) in Taiwan on June 29, 2023. …

Future Of News

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Considering the Future of News in Our Societies
Considering the Future of News in Our Societies
Future Of News

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Jan 3

Questions and Insights about the Digital News Landscape

Over the last year the following observations regarding the challenges facing journalism in our modern digital age have been delivered in speeches to audiences around the world. This is a composite of those addresses. In 1975, a wise mentor told me, “if you’re interested in the future of media, in…

Press Freedom

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Press Freedom

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Apr 3, 2022

The Future of News: Questions in Need of Answers

Keynote delivered to the International Symposium of Online Journalists on Friday, April 1, 2022 in Austin, Texas. In 1974, I worked at the Public Broadcasting Service on implementing the first satellite network for delivering television programs to stations across the United States. HBO was on a similar pioneering path. Until…

Future Of News

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The Future of News: Questions in Need of Answers
The Future of News: Questions in Need of Answers
Future Of News

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Mar 13, 2022

Puzzling through the Impact of Technology on Media

A look backward at a look forward from 1978 — From 1973 to 1977 I worked at the Public Broadcasting Service in Washington, DC. Interesting times at PBS. The Watergate Hearings began that first summer. PBS aired them gavel-to-gavel incurring the wrath of still-President Nixon. I started as a file clerk, the assistant to the assistant to vice president for…

Future Of News

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Puzzling through the Impact of Technology on Media
Puzzling through the Impact of Technology on Media
Future Of News

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·Nov 9, 2021

Divining Tesla’s Safety Score

Or how I became the Queen’s limo driver because I had no choice — In late September Tesla updated the software of my Model S (Performance, 2018) and advised that I now had the option to participate in Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta . …

Tesla

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Divining Tesla’s Safety Score
Divining Tesla’s Safety Score
Tesla

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Feb 27, 2021

Why predicting the future can be so dangerous

In 1994 I was working at Apple Computer. We were exploring new online services. This was the time of The Source, Compuserve, America Online and Apple’s own fledgling offering, eWorld. The consumer Internet was just around the corner. In Boulder, Colorado we had a small research group called the Apple…

Future Of News

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Why predicting the future can be so dangerous
Why predicting the future can be so dangerous
Future Of News

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Oct 10, 2019

Toward a Healthy and Sustainable Future for Journalism

Keynote delivered to the 75th Assembly of the Society of Inter-American Press. (SIP-IAPA) on Monday, October 7, 2019 in Miami, Florida. Good morning. It’s an honor for me to speak here at the Inter American Press Association 75th General Assembly. SIP has been a relentless guardian for freedom of expression…

Media

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Toward a Healthy and Sustainable Future for Journalism
Toward a Healthy and Sustainable Future for Journalism
Media

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May 28, 2018

News Then, News Now: Journalism in a Digital Age

Keynote delivered in Bagnaia, Italy on May 25 at “Growing Between the Lines”, a conference presented by the Osservatorio Permanente Giovani-Editori, an intimate gathering of Italian editors and publishers, global media and technology leaders, plus a few hundred accomplished students, the next generation of Italian leadership. One point seven billion…

Journalism

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News Then, News Now: Journalism in a Digital Age
News Then, News Now: Journalism in a Digital Age
Journalism

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Richard Gingras

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Richard Gingras is Vice President, News at Google

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