Remove economic incentives from news media, perhaps. You&#x27;d think news-organizations-as-charities would work, but even being donation-driven still incentivizes populist pandering at the expense of real journalism.<p>We need something that is to current journalism as the Senate is to the House: unable to be blown around by society&#x27;s ephemeral tastes.<p>The simplest method is probably to pay for journalism through taxes. The BBC is a decent model. Ideally we&#x27;d want to retain a multiplicity of viewpoints, though. Maybe a BBC-alike as a grant-funding organization, where small independent journalist groups get grants to go out and investigate, in exchange for an agreement to publish their stories onto the BBC-alike&#x27;s news wire service (which would then be freely licensed to distributors—basically putting those stories into the public domain.)<p>Rather than the BBC-alike deciding who to hire, let a Journalist&#x27;s Guild decide who&#x27;s good enough to publish; anyone allowed into the <i>profession</i> will be trusted to have done something valuable whenever they submit a story, and will be automatically paid out. It&#x27;s the Guild&#x27;s responsibility (i.e. that of the other Guild members) to catch their peers submitting nonsense and report them, and have those people&#x27;s journalistic credentials suspended or disbar them entirely.<p>That&#x27;d neatly realign the concept of &quot;journalistic integrity&quot; or &quot;journalistic ethics&quot; to stand at the same strength-of-force on journalists as the equivalent concepts in medicine and law do for their professionals.