The following is an excerpt from chapter six of A Future for the News: What’s Wrong with Mainstream News Media in America and How to Fix It, edited by Professor Jim A. Kuypers, out today from Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. The book “brings together academics and news industry professionals with individual chapters taking a specific area of concern and making a case for particular solutions to the problems presented. Solutions range from ones designed for individual reporters to consider, to those that target newsrooms, the institution of journalism, and news consuming audiences. Together they aim to help a beleaguered institution restore itself as a fully functioning asset of the American Republic.”
In response to Donald Trump’s 2016 victory, CNN International’s Christiane Amanpour, whose show is simulcast in the United States on PBS,…
