Breaking Media Bubbles: Legitimate Journalism In The Digital Age

The proliferation of fake news has many questioning the legitimacy of journalism in the digital age, but Jeremy Copeland argues that the real threat to a functioning democracy comes from so many people on both sides of the political spectrum living in news bubbles.

Algorithms created by media giants like Apple, Facebook and Google have replaced traditional gatekeepers in deciding what the public needs to know.

While people are overloaded with information, most are only exposed to a narrow range of viewpoints. They have unwittingly locked themselves inside invisible news bubbles.

The current way of consuming news is leading us toward an ever more divided world. Copeland helps us to understand why the current way of distributing and consuming news is broken and calls on us journalists and news consumers to chart a new course.