Introducing Scene on Radio: The News
From Scene on Radio by Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
May 20, 2026 · 2 min · Season 8
About this episode
This episode introduces the 8th season of Scene on Radio, focusing on the crises in American journalism and the need for a better news system.
Everybody's mad at the media. And Americans seem helpless to solve our problems, in large part because we have no shared narrative and few shared facts. A well informed citizenry we are not. In Scene on Radio's 8th season, producer and host John Biewen and returning co-host Chenjerai Kumanyika will examine the deep crises facing American journalism, how things got this way, and what it might mean to build a better and more democratic news and information system. From the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University and PRX. Find more, including episode transcripts, at SceneonRadio.org. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
People in this episode
Host: John Biewen
Topics covered
- American journalism
- media criticism
- shared narrative
- democratic news system
- information crisis
Keywords
- media
- journalism
- information
- democracy
- narrative
- crisis
- citizenry
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, PRX
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