Introducing The News from Scene on Radio

About this episode

This episode introduces the new season of Scene on Radio, focusing on the crises facing the news media in America.

Scene on Radio is a two-time Peabody-nominated podcast that dares to ask big, hard questions about who we are—really—and how we got this way. Their new season, The News, asks: what’s really wrong with the news? Some have called the news media the oxygen of a functioning democracy. But if that’s true, America’s lungs are in rough shape. Most Americans say they don’t trust the media. The business model for local journalism has all but collapsed. And we all know about the barrage of misinformation that flows from our splintered mediascape. You can’t separate the state of our news media from the other profound crises that America keeps on failing to solve. John Biewen explores the roots of this crises. Here's episode 1. Find The News, from Scene on Radio , wherever you get podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: John Biewen

Topics covered

• news media
• democracy
• misinformation
• local journalism
• trust in media

Keywords

• news
• media
• democracy
• misinformation
• local journalism
• trust

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Scene on Radio

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