My advice would be to make sure that the journalism schools are teaching skills that are really relevant in today's journalism world. I believe at King's College they have an entrepreneurial journalism program. I think that's really important, because I think the journalists of the future have to be entrepreneurial. For us, we can't really hire people who aren't willing to also come in with the spirit of wanting to help build this company and not just be an old school reporter. That is really important.
Another skill, and I don't know how to teach it yet, is around teaching people how to be critical thinkers but also how to distinguish themselves from fake news. I was just reading an article in the The Guardian this morning that talked about how the Koch brothers in the U.S. paid massive amounts of money to various different websites to attack Elon Musk and to put out fake stories on Elon Musk. Now lots of people believe something about his rocket ship falling from the sky. Basically they're trying to attack the solar energy industry and discredit it and crush it.
As was brought up by another member of the committee, as journalists, how do we break out of the echo chamber, and how are we going to speak to people? I think some of the education—honestly, I've been thinking about this a lot—needs to happen in public schools. It's not as much about educating journalists as it is about educating kids, teaching them to smell a fake news story or to just think that they might be the victims of propaganda.