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Opinion

In a world where attention is expensive, your message must be economical. It doesn’t matter if this is creatively valid — this is the reality we face now.

Society defines masculinity and marketers are part of an ecosystem that saturates men with content that perpetuates confusing, old-fashioned stereotypes of male identity.

From trust to news avoidance, from ‘jokes’ of death to actual deaths, there are serious problems facing journalists and journalism, and solutions are as yet unclear.

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