Breaking and Remaking News for a New Reality

Despite a crisis of trust, surging populism, and falling revenues, journalism’s purpose has never been clearer

The Columbia Journalism Review’s “Misinformation news stand” as seen in New York on Oct. 30, 2018. Photo by Atilgan Ozdil/Anadolu Agency/Getty

Alan Rusbridger was editor in chief of the Guardian from 1995 to 2005. He is now principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and chair of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.