In Reality

Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media. I'm Eric Schurenberg, longtime journalist and media executive, now the founder of the Alliance for Trust in Media. What does it mean to be media literate? It means being able to distinguish between opinion and news and being able to discern misinformation when you see it, knowing which news organizations to trust... But my guest today argues that real media literacy, or as he sometimes prefers, being media sa...

Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media with Eric Schoenberg, longtime journalist and media executive, now the founder of the Alliance for Trust in Media. It's hard to imagine principles more foundational to American self-conception as a free people than the guarantees of free speech and a free press embedded in the First Amendment. Given their importance, it's strange to realize that these principles almost didn't become Part of the Constitution. Rights...

Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media with Eric Schurenberg—longtime journalist and media executive, now founder of the Alliance for Trust in Media. When Eric started in journalism, the enforcer of accuracy was the newsroom. Editors questioned your work. Fact checkers combed through it for errors. The organization you worked for held you accountable for its reputation. But as everyone knows, fewer people today get their news from this kind of in...

Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation and the media with host Eric Schurenberg, long time journalist, now the founder of the Alliance for Trust in Media. Over the years, he's interviewed a number of people from the so- called bridge-building community. They’ve been researchers like Matt Levendusky of University of Pennsylvania, Journalists like Amanda Ripley, bridge builders like Monica Guzman, all convinced that things would be better if Americans could just stop dem...

Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media with Eric Schurenberg, longtime media executive, and now the founder of the Alliance for Trust in Media. If you've listened to this podcast more than once, you've likely heard a recurring question: What would it take to get Americans over their political alienation? Would it help to clean up and diversify our media diets? Would it help to understand where the other side is coming from? Today's guest thinks th...