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Open up the profession
“Making journalism more equitable will require a more inclusive definition of what it means to be a journalist. We’ll need to stop being precious about what we do and how we do it.”
2021 will be the year we are forced not only to confront our collective failures but to do something about them.
Our biggest failure: the total breakdown in trust between American communities and the journalists and newsrooms that are supposed to serve them. Going into the future, we’ll have to raise our standards for the relevance and usefulness of our work to the communities we’re supposed to serve.