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Q & A
I was there for eight years. And that was at a time when everybody was getting their news more and more on social media, and social media was exploding. It was an incredibly creative time to think about,‘ How do we connect hard and important global content with new audiences in new places? And how do you even take a documentary film that is normally one or two hours and create smaller pieces around it that then can stand alone?’ Some stuff worked, some didn’ t. It was a place that we were given a lot of latitude to play, experiment, iterate in the name of expanding this journalism. Not only were the platforms growing and changing and expanding, and everybody was coming to them, but that’ s also when we began to learn about information bubbles and misinformation and bots. Lots of stuff was changing in the media ecosystem and we had to change as well.
You hear people talk about the golden age of journalism, but I’ ve also heard people talk nostalgically about those early days online when blogs were new and social media was still an exciting opportunity. What is it like looking back on that time now? All of it has been about change. Those years at‘ Frontline’ did feel like we were creating something new— that everybody was experimenting, that there wasn’ t yet a playbook that had been made to be followed. I do think as the time and space has evolved and we’ ve seen the dangers of the world we live in when it comes to what you can trust and what you can’ t and how much time we spend online, everything has gotten so noisy and so busy so quickly that there is an important moment to pause and to reflect. I feel like we’ re thinking about this a lot now here. How do we build trust? Because now we have to build trust and relationships and connectivity with our neighbors, with our community, with our audiences, in ways that were a given before. At the end of the day, the media space is just moving so fast, and we’ re learning as we go. If we were talking five years ago, we would not have been talking about AI, and that is a major component today. At the end of the day it comes down to people and