<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>At PK we've been doing some thinking and writing about how to fix the news media, not just social media. </div><div><br></div><div><div>We believe that focusing blame Google and Facebook for the decline of in-depth news reporting and print journalism ignores the real and long-standing problems that lie at the heart of our troubled relationship with corporate media. Insisting that these companies should fund existing corporate media, or that we should solve the problem by allowing even more consolidation, would be a disaster for democracy.</div></div><div><br></div><div>From that starting point, we build:</div><div><br></div><div>Part 1: <a href="https://www.publicknowledge.org/news-blog/blogs/part-v-we-need-to-fix-the-news-media-not-just-social-media-1">https://www.publicknowledge.org/news-blog/blogs/part-v-we-need-to-fix-the-news-media-not-just-social-media-1</a></div><div><br></div><div>Part 2: <a href="https://www.publicknowledge.org/news-blog/blogs/part-v-fix-media-not-social-media-part-2">https://www.publicknowledge.org/news-blog/blogs/part-v-fix-media-not-social-media-part-2</a></div><div><br>Part 3: <a href="https://www.publicknowledge.org/news-blog/blogs/part-v-we-need-to-fix-the-news-media-not-just-social-media-part-3">https://www.publicknowledge.org/news-blog/blogs/part-v-we-need-to-fix-the-news-media-not-just-social-media-part-3</a></div><div><br></div><div>We hope the above contribute to our ongoing and collective conversation on platform regulation.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Gus<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">----</div><div dir="ltr"><table style="font-family:Times"><tbody><tr><td style="vertical-align:top"><br><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3" style="width:45pt;height:45pt;table-layout:fixed;color:rgb(197,194,197)"><tbody><tr style="line-height:0.5em"><td style="background-color:rgb(197,194,197);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px">#</td><td style="background-color:rgb(197,194,197);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px">#</td><td style="background-color:rgb(197,194,197);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px">#</td></tr><tr style="line-height:0.5em"><td style="background-color:rgb(197,194,197);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px">#</td><td style="color:rgb(223,52,28);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px;background-color:rgb(223,52,28);border-radius:50%">•</td><td style="background-color:rgb(197,194,197);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px">#</td></tr><tr style="line-height:0.5em"><td style="background-color:rgb(197,194,197);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px">#</td><td style="background-color:rgb(197,194,197);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px">#</td><td style="background-color:rgb(197,194,197);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px">#</td></tr></tbody></table></td><td style="vertical-align:top;padding-left:16px;font-family:sans-serif"><div style="margin-bottom:1em"><div><b>Gus Rossi</b></div><div>Global Policy Director</div><div><span>(202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 (mobile) | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/@agustinrs" target="_blank">@agustinrs</a></div></div><div><b>Public Knowledge</b> | <a href="https://twitter.com/publicknowledge" target="_blank">@publicknowledge</a> | <a href="http://www.publicknowledge.org/" target="_blank">www.publicknowledge.org</a> <br>1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 | CFC 12259</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>