Editing Decentralized news media (section)

=== Changes in news gathering ===
The design of the incentive algorithm is crucial for incentivizing reporters to write stories which are not misleading. But before the story is written, reporters require a nuanced understanding of the sources of information that contribute to their stories. In order to confidently report valid information to their news consumers, they require trustworthy sources of information. No reporter can possibly be a complete authority on the subject which they are reporting. Every writer relies on other reporters. News itself requires a system of newsgathering which has integrity at every level.

As the fourth estate breaks up in to smaller outlets with shorter lifespans, as the legacy media outlets devolve and have less trusted professional reporters on the ground at location, news stories will require ever more nuanced policing and vetting of sources. A decentralized system which properly rewards such policing is necessary to give the proper incentives to seek the truth. A future-oriented, valuable, and meaningful reputation token is necessary to build the system of incentivization. A dynamic [[Governance|governance mechanism]] is required so the system can incentivize the rebalancing of the incentivization mechanism itself. This will always be necessary as the landscape of reporting will always change, with new reporters, new audience interests, and new mediums of information transmission.