Dear Media, Some Breaking News from Your Anxious Audience…

Lu Hanessian
7 min readApr 11, 2020

We need informed, not inflamed, news in a time of global fear. The old rules of reporting don’t serve us now. This is a pivotal moment to reimagine the role of the press in a new world of threat and uncertainty where ‘back to normal’ is no longer an option.

By Lu Hanessian, MSc

Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash

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Lu Hanessian

Adjunct Professor, Journalist, Former NBC Network Anchor/Discovery Health Channel Host, Host & Exec Producer of “The Foreseeable Now” podcast.