'Journalism is needed most' amid anti-press rhetoric, professors say

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1. I started making a documentary and found that

the younger the audience the more receptive they were to documentaries. One young couple told me they watch docs almost every night before sleeping.

Documentaries have never been a priority for Americans in the way they are elsewhere. I think the change is driven by phones -- every kid now grows up shooting their life and events around them in first-person news gathering mode. They are very used to primary source information and that is a shift from the old dynamic of broadcast news and legacy newspapers.

To me this is a great time for those who crave information and debate. We have moved from the one-to-many media of the 1930-1990s era to a many-to-many dynamic that crowd sources both information gathering and fact checking.