Dispatches from the media apocalypse

In saving news, culture is key.

Ben Werdmuller
16 min readMay 23, 2024

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Without serious intervention, newsrooms are going to disappear. Changes to social media and the advent of generative AI threaten their businesses and the impact of their work. They need to own their online presences outright and build direct relationships with their communities-and they need to do it now.

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Ben Werdmuller

Writer: of code, fiction, and strategy. Trying to work for social good.