the big ticket highly paid newsmongers would prefer to be like a podcast, a panel of heads with webcams and bad mics, otherwise abdicating liability by deferring to doctors and politicians and press releases and other sources of conventional authority. but they always use the ones with the most perceived authority, whereas few of the ones they do platform actually checked the research!
Instead, journalism happens in the cracks, by individuals or small groups. Investagative reporting with shoestring budgets and done with donated time. local news. actual research, talking to actual researchers and translating it into the vernacular, the work well paid journalists refuse to do