Chicago Newsroom

Published on Jan 5, 2017

Ken Davis discusses the current and future status of Chicago’s news media in this conversation with the Reader’s News Editor Robin Amer, City Bureau co-founder Darryl Holliday and Justin Kaufmann, host of WGN Radio’s evening program The Download. They discuss the pervasive influence of Facebook and Google as the principle disseminators of news, and the struggle legacy news shops face as they compete for views on social media and smartphones. This program was produced by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).