I have 3 core beliefs about News in 2024:

- Most people can’t tell the difference between an opinion piece and a news piece. Publications need to make the difference clear.

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- News should be platform native. Nobody wants to leave the distribution channels. The News should take advantage of that.

- The trend towards hyper personalisation will only divide and polarise us more. We need broader, wide reaching, shared-touchstone news.

The news could be much more objective (I believe any reasonable person would say what you do is), but I think most people really just want their hyper emotional lizard brain opinions to be validated so there is little market for “Truth”

1. But there is a difference and we need News that captures and promotes that difference. We need News that attempts objectivity or we will keep going down the path of polarisation.  

2. A core reason people want to be informed is to show others that they are informed. This doesn’t work without Shared News.

I'd take the other side of 1 and 2. 

1: Separating opinion and news was a 20th century post-Lippmann phenomenon. People can't tell the difference because there is no difference in their heads. 

2: The notion of a national or even regional media is deader than network news. Everything will be hyper-personalized.

I agree with 1, but personally don't hold out much hope for publications (especially large ones) caring. Their standards are second to revenue generation.
With that in mind, educating and nurturing critical thinking skills should be taught to combat blurred lines