Fixing the Media Business on Blockchain

Description:

The journalism industry is in crisis. More than 200,000 journalists have lost their jobs since 2000, with high profile newspaper layoffs from the Denver Post to New York Daily News seemingly weekly occurrences. Ad-driven revenue streams have led to articles optimized for clicks rather than facts, and journalists, who must answer to "vulture capitalists" and other third-party owners, no longer control their own fates. Civil aims to flip this model on its head; it's a journalism platform controlled by a globally distributed network of individuals who care about promoting quality journalism. This panel will feature those who were among the first Newsrooms to form on Civil, as well as those building the underlying technology to make this model possible.