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Students are writing off journalism degrees. It’s a mistake.

AI is proving the skills at the heart of serious reporting – earning trust, digging for truth and telling stories that endure – are becoming harder to replicate, not easier.

On May 4, the Pulitzer Prizes recognized the very best in American journalism. Yet even as the industry celebrates its highest achievements, public confidence in the press is collapsing.

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Gallup recently found that only about a third of Americans trust the news media to report fully and fairly – a historic low.

It is widely understood that Americans distrust the media. The phrase “fake news,” once a fringe term, has entered everyday vocabulary as a shorthand for that distrust.

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