Radio Atlantic

Is the Public Square Gone?

After a news week that’s felt more like a news month, Matt Thompson sits down with two experienced editors to ask how people manage to make and consume news in today’s environment. Adrienne LaFrance is the editor of TheAtlantic.com. Franklin Foer is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and the author of World Without Mind.
Links

- “The Death of the Public Square” (Franklin Foer, July 6, 2018)
- “The Most Powerful Publishers in the World Don’t Give a Damn” (Adrienne LaFrance, August 8, 2018)
- “Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Understand Journalism” (Adrienne LaFrance, May 1, 2018)
- “The Era of Fake Video Begins” (Franklin Foer, May 2018 Issue)
- “When Silicon Valley Took Over Journalism” (Franklin Foer, September 2017 Issue)
- “It’s Time to Regulate the Internet” (Franklin Foer, March 21, 2018)
- “Social Media in 1857” (Adrienne LaFrance, November 1, 2017)
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The Atlantic has long been known as an ideas-driven magazine. Now we’re bringing that same ethos to audio. Like the magazine, the show will “road test” the big ideas that both drive the news and shape our culture. Through conversations—and sometimes sharp debates—with the most insightful thinkers and writers on topics of the day, Radio Atlantic will complicate overly simplistic views. It will cut through the noise with clarifying, personal narratives. It will, hopefully, help listeners make up their own mind about certain ideas.
The national conversation right now can be chaotic, reckless, and stuck. Radio Atlantic aims to bring some order to our thinking—and encourage listeners to be purposeful about how they unstick their mind.