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Can Journalism and Democracy Survive Social Media?
Byline Times was invited to the 2025 Sir Harry Evans Investigative Journalism Summit in London in May, held each year to honour the legacy of the editor widely regarded as a giant of post-war journalism. Here are the highlights from some of the speakers on the day
Jeffrey Goldberg and Tina Brown
Jeffrey Goldberg
Editor-in-Chief, The Atlantic
The founders of the United States were very sceptical about human nature. James Madison, one of the great framers of the American constitutional system, was extremely worried about the advent of a new technology – the daily newspaper.
Madison feared newspapers were going to overwhelm the citizenry of America. Because there was too much information coming at them too fast, he feared people would react emotionally, without time for mature reflection and self-restraint. He actually thought that democracy would not survive.
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