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This year, even more than ever before, the news is in crisis.
More than 17,000 news media jobs were cut in the first six months of
2023, at national and local outlets including at some of the biggest
names like NPR, the
**Texas Tribune** and Gannett. In fact, newsroom layoffs are up 20% from
last year. Some of these outlets laid off more than 10% of their staff
in the last few months - even as we head into a critical election
year.
Even more than those numbers, the quality of the media we read online
and see on television is at an all-time low. The messages shared by some
media outlets are divisive and biased, spinning facts into falsehoods on
a daily basis.
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