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Journalism on the Ropes

The Assignment with Audie Cornish

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What Is the Mission of Journalism?

I still really do believe in the mission of journalism. And I think that if there was something that I could wave a magic wand and do, it would be to prescribe news literacy classes in every high school in the country. Let's fantasize about that curriculum. My first lesson would be, honestly, a tutorial on what the goal is of journalism historically,. Where it has done well, where it has not; why the free press is so important in this country.

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