What is the future of journalism in the age of President Trump? We wrestled with this question today at the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards (TDIA), part of the Tribeca Film Festival. As a Disruptor Fellow,  I helped lead the conversation with Judy Miller (foreign policy analyst and Bold friend) of Fox News and Erica Anderson of Google News Lab. It was fascinating to hear how people in the venture capital and tech industries responded to questions of what type of content should be subsidized and promulgated and whether media companies can or should have any influence in the type of content Americans consume. I argued that yes, we as media creators shouldn’t be agnostic in how we approach both the investment/business side and the editorial side of content. I brought up the courageous work of my mentor Al Sikes, a Bold Contributor and former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). During his time at the FCC, Sikes fought to protect young minds from the misogyny of Howard Stern, who was moved from the open airwaves behind a satellite paywall. The TDIA is named in honor of the 1997 book The Innovator’s Dilemma by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen. Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival,…
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