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The New York Times’ Publisher on the Future of Journalism, and the Poet Paul Tran

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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The Collapse of Local News

I think there is an information problem, but I think it's about the collapse of local news. The New York Times was the only newspaper that had a full-time presence in Iraq and Afghanistan every day of the conflict. We would have had a conflict where American troops were on the ground but no American journalists to hold them to account. There's been this hangover from the honestly terrible conventional wisdom of the early internet. That I think almost sunk our industry.

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