I want to tell you about our latest episode of Tempo and the Times, our sister podcast, in which we take a look at the news media today and some of the issues surrounding it.

Our guest on the podcast is Guy Reel, a veteran journalist and now college journalism professor, who talks about the good old days when grizzled, hard-drinking reporters sat around the newsroom comparing notes about their stories and then headed out to the nearest bar to continue after work.

The goal of many was to ferret out the facts and the truth and if that meant exposing wrong doing, so be it.

But today, Reel says, times have changed. Newsrooms have thinned out, the rattle of typewriters and teletype machines have been replaced with the quiet tapping on computer keyboards, and a big focus is on gaining social media followers and recognition.

Reel talks about the impact of fake news and about the new crop of reporters that he’s teaching, and has some interesting observations.

Here’s more from my commentary today at Not Fake News.biz.