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Rebuilding trust in the media from the bottom up

  • Written by Michael Gordon, Professor, Social Entrepreneurship and Business Administration, University of Michigan
With local news outlets facing tough times, who will cover neighborhoods like Detroit's Oakwood Heights?Notorious4life

America is living in a Facebook moment, where privacy is not private; a Sinclair moment, where local is not local; and a presidential moment, where truth is not true.

It seems clear that someone needs to rebuild trust between the...

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