These days, it seems like every attempt at public policy gets called a bailout. But not all bailouts are good public policy, and not all good public policy requires a bailout. Sometimes, the public policy process is actually a way to create systemic change.

It’s this sort of solution we need if we are to contend with our journalism crisis – not a bailout of the old guard media system, but a national journalism strategy aimed at bringing together government, activists, industry and the public to craft policies that will support quality journalism.