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  "textContent": "What do communities want from journalism? After years of working with local communities on what they need, Shirish Kulkarni notes in Journalism’s Logical Fallacy that it’s actually quite straightforward: \"The first thing that strikes you when you genuinely listen to communities talk about journalism is that the problem isn’t that they have too little information – they have too much. They’re drowning in content – pulled in every direction by an information ecosystem that AI is making faster, noisier and harder to navigate by the day. The conclusion the industry draws – that people need more journalism, better journalism, faster journalism – doesn’t follow. What people are crying out for is a processing layer – spaces and formats that help them make collective sense of the world together. Connection, not content.\" And he shares two other findings in the article: they are not news-illiterate, and want help making good decisions. (Via Ben Werdmuller’s excellent Notable Links)",
  "title": "What communities need from journalism",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-27T07:15:44Z"
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