> Do you think the fact that some journalists maliciously crop social media posts means that we should replace the institutional model with a "Github" model of professional journalists?

No, I definitely don't.

I think techies who think they've got all the answers for how to fix journalism are hubristic, but I also think journalists who think all is well with their industry need to get off their high horse and do some introspection too. I think both industries are in a crisis, and it happens that the two crises have nontrivial overlap; the tools the tech industry has been creating over the past 15 or so years have been exacerbating the problems in journalism. So no, I definitely don't think the tech industry is situated to solve the problems with journalism; judging by past performance the tech industry has a deleterious effect on journalism and I don't foresee this changing soon.

I don't know how to fix journalism, nor do I know how to fix the tech industry.

I don't know either but I do know it starts with figuring out what journalism is or is suppose to be. You know it when you see it is not a good position to progress from. I'm not thinking of a single answer or a definition of what it is not.(or not suppose to be) I also have no idea who should make the decisions here :-) Perhaps we should all make up our mind indevidually.

Maybe?

The most valuable news I currently get is from newsletters by individual writers and their podcasts.

Stay Tuned with Preet Bharara and Cafe Insider, Stratechery, Money Stuff, recently persuasion.

I also like Stripe’s increment magazine, but that’s more similar to the old model.

I’d love to support more individual writers I respect rather than the orgs they write for.

No, we're not all saying we need to replace journalism with some wacky new system.

What we are saying is that journalism has major problems with accountability and criticism.