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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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Nov 21, 2016

What the First Amendment really means

The open Internet is our First Amendment brought to life. It is a democratic ideal. Anyone and everyone can publicly express themselves to the entire world or the world that matters to them. …

Journalism

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What the First Amendment really means
What the First Amendment really means
Journalism

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Jun 15, 2016

Building a Successful Future for News

Keynote delivered on June 15, 2016 in Berlin at Zeitung Digital, the conference of BDZV, the federation of German newspaper publishers. I have spent considerable time in Germany over the last several years. Interesting times. Fun times. I’ve made many good friends here even as we sometimes grapple with the…

Google

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Google

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