Media Institute: Government Should Look to Google in Journalism Inquiry

The "crisis" in journalism is not about audiences abandoning news organizations for "newer, shinier, digital models," but figuring out how to monetize a growing appetite for information and a continuing interest in holding government institutions and others to account.

"Americans still demand that someone speak truth to power, whether that trusted voice is Walter Cronkite or Jon Stewart," says Kurt Wimmer, partner in the law firm of Covington & Burling, in a think piece for The Media Institute, a Washington First Amendment think tank whose trustees include representatives of News Corp., Time Warner, Gannett, Viacom, Verizon, Microsoft, NBC Universal and AT&T.