How Silicon Valley Can Help Save Journalism
A better, sustainable business model could restore the press’s credibility.
Tech entrepreneurs are always chattering that they don’t care about money—they just want to make a better world.
Well, if that’s true, here’s a challenge that would do more to make a better world than yet another app like Places I’ve Pooped. (Oh yes, it exists.) How about coming up with a great business model for solid, objective journalism that appeals to a broad market across the political spectrum? It might be the most profound way to help close America’s deep divide—and save us from something like that Russian Revolution scene in Dr. Zhivago.
The absence of a common, cross-cultural base of facts and understanding is, as they say
