‘We’ve basically handed over our core communication and information infrastructures to a handful of oligarchs,’ says the Annenberg’s Victor Pickard. Pickard holds the C. Edwin Baker chair of media policy and political economy at the Annenberg School f0r Communication, University of Pennsylvania. ‘Wicked Problems’Throughout these two days of inquiries and interventions, there’s a strong parallel recognition of exactly what Pickard is known for defining: Journalism becomes the canary in the besieged mines of free expression. “I run into this all the time,” he says, “particularly when I’m talking about how we need to subsidize journalism. “And that’s where I’m trying to broaden the discourse,” Victor Pickard says, “trying to broaden our imagination about what’s possible.

Source: CNN May 29, 2022 00:49 UTC