Tricky

Emily and Heather consider what place opinion journalism has in public discourse today. With Jeet Heer of The New Republic, and Katie Kingsbury of the New York Times, the two ask: Is intellectual diversity possible? Can, and should, legacy news organizations provide thought leadership? When do provocations and thought experiments actually foster debate and when are they just straight trolling? And what’s that smell? Is it the daily bonfire of hot takes?   Reading list: https://journalismdesign.com/episode-7-a-bonfire-of-hot-takes/   Theme music: The Insider Theme by The Insider is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 International License.