Priority Issue List

Priority Issue List


Find our issue primers and related work on enhancing algorithmic transparency, algorithms and quality news, and evolving technology and media.

  • Enhancing Algorithmic Transparency: How can public policy enhance algorithmic transparency and accountability while protecting against political or commercial manipulation?
  • Algorithms & Quality News: How can we ensure that algorithms identify and promote fact-based, independent journalism?
  • Evolving Technology & Media: How will evolving technology and media formats change societal expectations for and relationships with news?

Find our issue primers and related work on building news sustainability and modernizing copyright law.

  • Building News Economic Sustainability: How can public policy addressing economic support for news enable independent, competitive journalism without creating political or legacy bias?
  • Modernizing Copyright Law: How can copyright law be modernized in a way that benefits independent, competitive journalism and an open internet?

Find our issue primers and related work on journalists and cybersecurity threats, artificial intelligence in journalism, and synthetic media and deepfakes.

Find our issue primers and related work on building news relevance and enhancing news diversity.

  • Building News Relevance: How can the news media remain relevant, particularly with young audiences and underserved communities? 
  • Enhancing News Diversity: How can public policy enhance an open, innovative environment for a diverse press? 

Find our issue primers and related work on addressing journalists and online abuse, disinformation and “awful but lawful” content.

Find our issue primers and related work on protecting an open internet and sustainable models for the open distribution of news.

  • Protecting an Open Internet: How can we discourage the development of ‘splinternets’ and encourage the protection of an open internet?
  • Open Distribution of News: What are sustainable models for open distribution and consumption of news and information?