Early in the Sept. 6 Texas Tribune Festival panel discussion entitled, “The News about the News Business,” moderator Swati Sharma, the editor-in-chief and publisher of voxdotcom, asked the panelists to discuss nytimes publisher A.G. Sulzberger’s washingtonpost op-ed piece, which posited that the methods used by foreign leaders in Hungary, India and Brazil to curtail journalism could be used in the same way in the United States should like-minded politicians take power as a result of the November election. After the panelists discussed how national publications like the Washington Post are covering that issue, Sharma asked Sarabeth Berman, the CEO of weareajp, about the threat that the current moment poses to local journalistic outlets. We thought her answer was worth sharing in part because it gets at the heart of what the tribunefest is all about and in part because it suggests the vital role that high school and university journalists can play to provide the civic journalism that the...