The health of the information environment could be inferred from the health of the organisations responsible for it.
Digital technology has quietly altered that relationship. Today a single piece of reporting rarely travels directly from journalist to citizen. It is indexed by search engines, recommended by algorithms, discussed on social media, quoted in newsletters, interpreted by specialists, summarised by artificial intelligence and shared through private conversations before eventually becoming part of someone’s understanding of the world. Public understanding increasingly emerges from the relationships between institutions rather than from the actions of any one institution in isolation.
Informed citizens emerge not from individual institutions but from the relationships between journalism, universities, public institutions, technology and civil society.
Guido van Nispen
Publisher and Director
