Rebuilding Local and Community Media for the Twenty-First Century

American Academy members were invited to join the University of Wisconsin – Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Academy's Commission on Reimagining Our Economy for a panel discussion and private dinner to engage on recommendations from the recent Academy report “Advancing a People-First Economy.”

The panel featured CORE commission co-chair Katherine Cramer (Univeristy of Wisconsin), television journalist Frederica Freyberg (PBS Wisconsin), professor of journalism Lewis Friedland, and Michael Wagner, director of the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal in discussion on the challenges facing the media industry and the role of the local media ecosystem in a thriving economy.