Facebook exec: It would be 'devastating' if we 'lost' local news
By Erik Wemple Erik Wemple Media critic with a focus on the ups and downs and downs of the cable-news industry. Email Bio Follow Media critic April 4 at 1:33 PM Art Cullen is the editor of the Storm Lake Times, a 3,000-circulation newspaper in Iowa. In 2017, he won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing disguised as investigative reporting — an exposé on corporate agriculture and river pollution.
At a Washington Post event on Thursday, Facebook executive Anne Kornblut, a former Post journalist, spoke of the stakes at play. “Our focus and my personal focus is on helping publications figure out a business model for the future, how to help them do that. We want them to be viable. We want to get to a place where they’re able to survive,” she told The Post’s Sarah Ellison.
Yet Facebook, to hear Kornblut tell it, is concerned about the trends in local news. “Facebook’s core mission is community and building community. And local news is one of the most important ways you can actually build community. We’ve seen people come together around local news in a way that I think it would be devastating if it were somehow lost,” she said.
A Facebook executive expressing grave concern about the state of the local-news industry is a recipe for online scorn and satire:— Sebastian Oñate April 4, 2019 If only @facebook could do something to help. https://t.co/drbI7HVU4b
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