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Podcast: Julie Gammack's Iowa Potluck
Episode: The Washington Post Blood Bath, and Journalism Today
Description: In this episode of Julie Gammackâs Potluck, we welcome Geneva Overholserâformer Washington Post ombudsman and former editor of The Des Moines Registerâfor a wide-ranging, urgent conversation about whatâs happening to American journalism, and what might come next.Overholser opens with a blunt assessment of the recent upheaval at The Washington Post: itâs âa two-part storyââthe brutal economics battering legacy newsrooms, and the additional distortions that come with billionaire ownership. She argues that whatâs been lost isnât just staffing, but whole sections that once helped define a great metropolitan paperâs...