![]() In November 1960, the News bought out The Detroit Times. The News would continue to grow and cover Detroit through its good times and bad for decades. 20, 1920, the nation's first commercial radio station, WWJ Newsradio 950 (then known as 8MK) made its first broadcast from a studio in the offices of this building. Exposer of secret iniquities - Unrelenting foe of privilege and corruption." Promoter of civic welfare and civic pride - Bond of civic unity - Protector of civil rights. ![]() Bearer of intelligence - dispeller of ignorance and prejudice - A light shining into all dark places. Reflector of every human interest - friend of every righteous cause - encourager of every generous act. Interpreter of the public intent - troubler of the public conscience. The statues are of Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of moveable type, which allowed for the mass production of books and the birth of the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods William Caxton, who brought the printing press to England and is said to have been that nation's first printer Christophe Plantin, an influential printer during the Renaissance period and Benjamin Franklin, who was not only key in America's founding, but also had a newspaper, the Pennsylvania Gazette, and printed "Poor Richard's Almanack." Franklin was a firm believer in the power - and the importance - of the press.īetween these statues are these words carved into stone panels: "Mirror of the public mind. Kahn designed the Fort Street and Lafayette Boulevard facades to be nearly identical, though the latter features four statues and five panels spelling out the paper's mission as a watchdog for the people. The ink-stained wretches moved into their new digs and began banging out stories on typewriters the following year. This new building would be far larger than the paper's home at Shelby and Larned streets - and far more modern. The News continued to grow, and in 1916, architect Albert Kahn was hired to design a new home for its operations. ![]() The paper proved to be an almost instant success, with Detroiters eating up Scripps' brand of local interest stories over dinner or after work. While most papers today hit doorsteps in the morning, the News came in the afternoon. Scripps began publishing The Evening News. This has made the structure the undisputed home of Michigan news media. Today, the Detroit News Building is home to not only its namesake newspaper, but also the paper's arch-rival, the Detroit Free Press. You can listen to the episode and subscribe to the TechTank podcast on Apple, Spotify, or Acast.For nearly 100 years, some of Detroit's greatest journalism has been produced within the walls of this building. The discussion explores changes in the consumption of news media and the impact on both local news and consumers’ information awareness. In this episode of the TechTank podcast, co-host and director of the Center for Technology Innovation, Nicol Turner Lee, speaks with Courtney Radsch, p ostdoctoral research fellow in UCLA’s Institute for Technology, Law, & Policy, and Steven Waldman, CEO and founder of Rebuild Local News. Artificial intelligence (AI) has also played a role in the current media ecosystem by amplifying messages that can distort what everyday people believe in, transforming news into the likeness of conspiracy theories. The increase in misinformation has generated consequences in both democratic and authoritarian societies leading to widespread skepticism of election integrity and social protests banding against what has been stated as truth. More than 1,800 communities across the United States are without a local news media, making the internet the most reliable source for news consumption.įurther, some have argued that the online sphere has given way to increased mis- and dis-information due to false headlines and illegitimate news stories, combined with an aggregation of content generated by polarized individuals and communities. Newspaper advertising has also been greatly affected in the age of the internet, including an 81% decline in revenue since 2000, or $40 billion collectively. The Rebuild Local News coalition found, on average, two newspapers shut down per week in the United States and the number of newsrooms employees have also declined by 57% since 2004. But the internet has resulted in deleterious consequences for traditional local media, including the erosion of the quality of investigative and fact-based journalism, and blows to the business models of traditional and local media channels. The internet has further expanded the aggregating, posting, and sharing of news through social media and other web-based tools, including podcasts and videos. News has progressively evolved in both the delivery and perception of various news content. The consumption of news and other media have been essential to the history of the United States.
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