In 1968, the broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite was considered the "most trusted man in America." Today, a former president has called journalists the "enemy of the people." So, how did we, a nation that has enshrined freedom of the press in its foundational values, devolve into a people who are distrustful of news sources while also accepting as fact and truth social media without verifiable sources?

This three-part, three-week series explores these questions through the lens of history, shifting policies and norms, and the impacts of corporate media and technology to understand the forces that shape perceptions and opinions. By the end of the third session, participants will have tools and techniques to hone their news literacy.  

Session 2: Impact of Deregulation and Technology on Trustworthiness

• Cross-media ownership
  
• Fairness Doctrine
• Technology and 24-hour News/Programming 
• Internet and Social Media 
• State of Newspapers
• Consequences

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Amy Paige Condon wrote her first short story as a first grader in Mrs. Henry's class at Lee Britain Elementary in Irving, Texas, and won a poster. From that moment forward, she knew she wanted to be a writer.

Since then, she has worked as a freelance writer, a broadcast news producer, a magazine editor, and now as an award-winning journalist and editor for the Savannah Morning News.

Amy has co-written three bestselling cookbooks: "The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook" (Artisan 2012), "The Wiley's Championship Barbecue Cookbook" (Gibbs Smith 2014), "Bress 'n' Nyam: Gullah-Geechee Recipes from a Sixth-generation Farmer" (Countryman Press 2021).

Her fourth collaboration, “Roots, Heart, Soul: The Story, Celebration, and Recipes of Afro Cuisine in America” with chef Todd Richards was released by HarperCollins in February 2024. She is working with Oakland, California-based chef Crystal Wahpepah on “A Feather and a Fork: 125 Intertribal Recipes from an Indigenous Food Warrior,” slated for release in October 2025.

She is the author of the biography "A Nervous Man Shouldn't Be Here in the First Place: The Life of Bill Baggs," about one of the most influential newspaper editors of the 20th century that almost no one has heard of.

Amy founded the Refinery Writing Studio in 2017 to help aspiring and established writers develop their storytelling skills. She lives in Savannah, Georgia with her husband, a rescue dog named Moses, and a pig named Gus.