COMMENTARY BY MATT DERIENZO

Everything Changed This Year. What About Our Approach to News?

It would be challenging to detail even a fraction of the loss, grief, anxiety and fear we have suffered in 2020; the breakdown of political and governmental norms; the degree of reckoning we are seeing in the U.S. over 400 years of violent racism; the changes to how we work, how we socialize, how we travel. So much about our politics, the economy and people’s daily lives has changed. There are few signs that our journalism is changing fast enough to keep up.