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If George Orwell was right and journalism is printing something that somebody doesn’t want printed (“Everything else is public relations”), then journalism as an idea is facing very real threats. We work in an oppressive legal environment. Unaccountable tech firms seek to monopolise (and monetise) public discourse while bending it to their interests. Concentration spans are getting shorter. We see signs of a burgeoning literacy crisis. Many news outlets are struggling to survive; some have disappeared. Meanwhile, the forces of anti-journalism – disinformation, propaganda, the public relations industry, the darker corners of social media – are thriving.
Against that background,
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