Time to See Journalism as a ‘Patriotic Responsibility'?

Q&A: Former NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack discusses importance of journalism in supporting democracy

Editor’s note: This Q&A is lightly edited for clarity and style. Andrew Lack is a journalist, producer and executive in the television and media industries. He previously served as chairman of NBC and MSNBC and was the chairman and CEO of Sony Music Entertainment. He recently came to the University of Wisconsin to take part in a conversation, Democracy in the Balance, hosted by the UW School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Please introduce…

Time to see journalism as a ‘patriotic responsibility'?

Paul Fanlund: Former NBC News Chair Andy Lack founded the nonprofit Mississippi Today and is spreading the gospel of journalism’s benefit to society.