I think another way is to train readers to understand the issues, and over decades, change the incentives faced by media. Or for us to push back on the incentives that social networks set for media outlets.

I wrote a media literacy guide for engineers in this vein:

https://github.com/nemild/hack-an-engineer

Are government-owned news outlets significantly better on this particular issue (of deaths)? What does the BBC, CBC, ABC, Al-Jazeera cover? I'd wager it's substantially similar. You'd have to have orders of magnitude more articles about people dying of heart disease (or whatever) to make up for it, and I don't think eg. the BBC spends its resources that way.

> Government subsidies for proper, independent news reporting could help tremendously here.

If your reporting depends on government subsidies, it's very much not independent.