Historian Jon Meacham says challenges facing free press could be fixed with empathy and understanding history

As partisan and so-called fake news abounds, there are three things that will save the free press in the U.S., and serendipitously, they’re what in these political tumultuous times will save us all: healthy curiosity, skepticism that isn’t cynicism and the belief that what has gotten the nation this far will continue to get us farther.Also, people subscribing to local news.Or so said presidential historian and Pulitzer-prize winning author Jon Meachman to an audience of more than 600