…You don’t always need to be first — In my opinion, the culture of immediacy has really hurt the news industry. The internet allows you to get information out there quickly but that also means that information will spread quickly. I think we all need to just slow down. A journalism professor of mine always said you’d rather be right than first. And in the age of the internet, that’s more important than ever.
As a part of our series about “the 5 steps we can take to win back trust in journalism” I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Ashley Alese Edwards.
Ashley Alese Edwards is the U.S. Partnerships Manager at Google News Lab. She is passionate about diversity in news media and has promoted this through her involvement in media literacy and inclusion programs. Before Google, she worked at multiple journalism outlets and still freelances on occasion.
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