By Erik Wemple Erik Wemple Media critic with a focus on the ups and downs and downs of the cable-news industry. Email Bio Follow Media critic April 4 at 1:33 PM Art Cullen is the editor of the Storm Lake Times, a 3,000-circulation newspaper in Iowa. In 2017, he won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing disguised as investigative reporting — an exposé on corporate agriculture and river pollution.
At a Washington Post event on Thursday, Facebook executive Anne Kornblut, a former Post journalist, spoke of the stakes at play. “Our focus and my personal focus is on helping publications figure out a business model for the future, how to help them do that. We want them to be viable. We want to get to a place where they’re able to survive,” she told The Post’s Sarah Ellison.
Yet Facebook, to hear Kornblut tell it, is concerned about the trends in local news. “Facebook’s core mission is community and building community. And local news is one of the most important ways you can actually build community. We’ve seen people come together around local news in a way that I think it would be devastating if it were somehow lost,” she said.
A Facebook executive expressing grave concern about the state of the local-news industry is a recipe for online scorn and satire:— Sebastian Oñate April 4, 2019 If only @facebook could do something to help. https://t.co/drbI7HVU4b
Facebook needs to end. Over it.
We've certainly been devastated by a loss of truth in journalism, and a serious lack of reporters willing to look beyond their politics in our national media.
annekornblut Hey, how about an across-the-board, enterprise 'moon shot' investment in those news orgs that you've cannibalized and leveraged into destruction? All of those small town newspapers and major metros? Pretty sure there's some change rattling around Menlo Park.
Facebook is actively colluding with the left in Israel in the upcoming elections. I hope they prosecute zuckerboig to the fullest extent of the law. I am certain that Trump will extradite zuck with glee. That leftist shit.
fixed it for you: “it would seem that we devastated local news”
I’m not I Facebook for news. I just want to see my old friends
DeleteFacebook
How can we make that happen for them?
If so, I could also delete my fake account. completefreedom
My time on there was the worst time of my life.
We already did with the Telecommunications Act of 1996. 'Local' news is a farce perpetuated by Sinclair (or whatever they call themselves nowadays)
So glad I don't use Facebook 👍
“Devastating” he said while rolling his eyes and doing airquotes with his hands.
Do you trust Facebook with your local news?