Alex Jones on the Decline of the News
Alex S. Jones covered the press for The New York Times from 1983-1992, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. Jones is the director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and he’s hosted NPR’s “On the Media” and PBS’s “Media Matters.” His most recent book is Losing the News: The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy. Jones talked with Byron Perry for Zócalo about citizen journalism, partisan blogs, and the eroding “iron core” of serious news.
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