{"id":99,"date":"2019-11-13T03:29:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T03:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/amherst\/?page_id=99"},"modified":"2019-11-13T03:29:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T03:29:01","slug":"can-free-media-sustain-democracy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/amherst\/can-free-media-sustain-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Free Media Sustain Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"firstHeading\">Can Free Media Sustain Democracy<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/52\/179960947_98ab8d0441_m_d.jpg\" alt=\"179960947_98ab8d0441_m_d.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Discussants: Barry Parr, Coastsider.com; John Byrne, RawStory.com; Jeremy Iggers, Twin Cities Media Alliance; Charles Lewis, Center for Public Integrity; David Beers, The Tyee; and Staci Kramer, PaidContent.org (not shown in photo above).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Traditional news organizations are banking on advertising to support their web-news efforts. But as print\/broadcast revenues and audiences shrink, will web advertising alone support newsrooms? Is that a problem for democracy? What other funding options are possible? Experts who have considered the issue for a decade forecast the future and listen to summit participants&#8217; predictions, needs and initiatives.&nbsp;<em>Convener: Peter Krasilovsky, Krasilovsky Consulting; discussants: Charles Lewis, Center for Public Integrity; Barry Parr, Coastsider.com; David Beers, The Tyee; John Byrne, RawStory.com; Jeremy Iggers, Twin Cities Media Alliance and Staci Kramer, PaidContent.org.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can Free Media Sustain Democracy Discussants: Barry Parr, Coastsider.com; John Byrne, RawStory.com; Jeremy Iggers, Twin Cities Media Alliance; Charles Lewis, Center for Public Integrity; David Beers, The Tyee; and Staci Kramer, PaidContent.org (not shown in photo above). Traditional news organizations are banking on advertising to support their web-news efforts. But as print\/broadcast revenues and audiences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-99","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/amherst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/amherst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/amherst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/amherst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/amherst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/amherst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/amherst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/amherst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}