Bert Roughton

Retired senior managing editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution turned consultant/warrior in the fight to preserve American journalism.

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Bert Roughton

Oct 13 · 5 min read

Democracy, communities shrivel in growing news desert

For more than a century, folks in Ware County unfolded The Waycross Journal-Herald to catch up on the births, deaths and everything that happened in between.

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Bert Roughton

Mar 10 · 1 min read

https://www.ajc.com/news/opinion/opinion-polititainment-creates-sound-fury-but-little-light/d3Fpi28MS9zqIVP10ikQ9K/

Bert Roughton

Feb 23 · 4 min read

To survive journalists must regain trust

The future of journalism?

You might as well ask about the future of the Republic.

You can’t really have one without the other.

Thomas Jefferson knew this. He viewed newspapers — which tormented him much of…

Bert Roughton

Feb 23 · 1 min read

https://www.ajc.com/news/opinion/opinion-journalism-future-will-rely-trust/AkUUeTHpfmo9tcNobdc5RM/

Bert Roughton

Sep 25, 2016 · 4 min read

Credible Journalism Lost in the Daily Flotsam and Jetsam

About 20 editors, social media experts, data experts, visual journalists and assorted others filled our sixth-floor conference room Thursday morning to make plans.