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It's a long answer, but the short one is that we need more horizontal journalism—collaboration across brands and less discrete brands—rather than just more vertical journalism (though we need that too, i.e. more resources for investigative reporting and features and data journalism and so on). Essentially, "corporate ego" needs to erode to the point where you can have "neural networks" of news organizations that cooperate with one another and create a matrix of their reporting (probably using AI). I don't know how long it will take to get there.

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Yes! Neural networks. Really smart. But is it corporate ego that needs to erode or the monetization/incentivizing of the “free” press? I can’t think of a model that doesn’t need a Mr. Pillow or two paying for ad space.

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Perfect answer.

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