The Utopian - Episode 9 - Free Speech in the Era of Fake News with Nora Benavidez and Viktorya Vilk

Episode 9 - Free Speech in the Era of Fake News with Nora Benavidez and Viktorya Vilk

05/23/20 • 40 min

The ongoing pandemic has revealed the extent to which access to reliable news could be the difference between life and death for some. Unfortunately, those trained to release this information — the reporters who staff the country's thousands of local news outlets — are on the brink of both financial and existential ruin. Nora Benavidez and Viktorya Vilk, advocates at PEN America, explain the threats facing America's newsrooms and how their further erosion harms us all. Read the report on the state of local news: https://pen.org/local-news/

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