Inside the Partisan Digital Warfare Reshaping Journalism

In this episode I talk to Laura Dawn, chief creative officer of recently launched news aggregator FrontPageLive.com. The shorthand description is that it's a progressive response to the massively popular Druge Report. But it goes much deeper than that, as you'll hear from our interview. Among the team that launched the site is none other than former Fox News political reporter Carl Cameron. Dawn isn't a journalist by the traditional definition. She's an activist who for years has been a writer, director, strategist, and producer of social justice campaigns. She was the seventh employee of MoveOn.org. She runs her own agency, Art Not War, with her partner, Daron. She talks in this interview about how she was among those targeted by Cambridge Analytica in the final months of the 2016 presidential election. The way the political battles now rage online, with such sophisticated and micro-targeted information campaigns, makes it harder than ever to sort the propagandists from the activists from the journalists. And it's the journalists who seem to be struggling most of all to hold their line.