The Death of the Gatekeeper: Adam Penenberg on Traditional Journalism's Identity Crisis
About this episode
Adam Penenberg discusses the challenges facing traditional journalism and the future of news in a rapidly changing media landscape.
For decades, a handful of legacy media outlets decided what counted as news, how to frame it, and who got to report it. Now trust has collapsed, The New York Times is selling cooking apps to stay alive, and there is no consensus regarding what's real or what the truth is anymore. So what comes next? Adam Penenberg has spent his career inside the journalism industry and inside the classroom training the young journalists who'll inherit it. He's a professor at New York University’s journa...
People in this episode
Hosts: David Hyde, Sandeep Kaushik
Guest: Adam Penenberg
Topics covered
- traditional journalism
- media trust
- identity crisis
- future of news
- journalism education
Keywords
- journalism
- media
- trust
- news
- identity crisis
- New York University
- Adam Penenberg
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: New York University, The New York Times
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