Former New York Times Executive Editor Max Frankel once said   “We could not decide whether The Times had to be a good newspaper to be profitable or profitable to produce a good newspaper.”

Frankel’s comment speaks to a factor affecting the media industry. Most news organizations are owned by large corporations, whose priorities are to make money. They also want to produce quality news, but when push comes to shove, money usually takes precedent.

St. Bonaventure University students Riley Mitchell, Iesh Gujral, Sullivan Murphy and Jack Valenti discussed these questions and more in podcast recorded at Oxford University’s Trinity College, where they studied this summer.

Categories: Jandoli Institute, Politics