Tom Rosenstiel

Executive Director, American Press Institute

Guest

Executive Director of the American Press Institute, a think tank on the future of news media; Director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a non-political research organization, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, that evaluates the performance of the press; former reporter for the Los Angeles Times from 1983-1995; co-author of Blur: How to Know What’s True in the Age of Information Overload

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