Saving Journalism’s Soul in the Age of Trump

View from press pen at Trump rally in Montana (Twitter/@TonyBynum)

Note: This (minus the introduction) is the full text of a speech delivered at the Drexel Writing Festival on the Philadelphia campus of Drexel University on April 18, 2019.

More than two years after Donald Trump became 45th president of the United States, talking about saving America’s free press seems both an urgent matter and, to some people, something of a red herring. As the…

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