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‘It’s not in a great place’: Steve Hayes on the state of the news media industry

Missy Nester owner of the The Welch News walks around the now closed office on Wednesday, May 31, 2023, in Welch, W.Va. Chris Carlson/AP Photo.

Steve Hayes, editor and CEO of The Dispatch, discusses the state of the news media industry, the evolution of conservative journalism, and how The Dispatch fits within these trends.

The episode is part of The Hub‘s Future of News series in which The Hub‘s editor-at-large, Sean Speer, will be in conversation with journalists and policy thinkers to explore the challenges facing the news media industry and the respective roles of business and government to establish sustainable models for producing and distributing news and information. The Future of News series is supported and funded by The Hub’s foundation donors and Meta.

You can listen to this Future of News episode of Hub Dialogues on Acast, Amazon, Apple, Google, and Spotify. The episodes are generously supported by The Ira Gluskin And Maxine Granovsky Gluskin Charitable Foundation and The Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski Charitable Foundation.

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