--- title: Five Best: Today’s Journalism Inspires Future Generations description: Today’s journalism still inspires future generations, programs taking aim at the multigenerational cycle of poverty are working and more. canonical: https://time.com/4972201/todays-journalism-still-inspires-future-generations/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-06T16:00:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:25.462Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Today’s Journalism Still Inspires Future Generations og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4972201/todays-journalism-still-inspires-future-generations/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Today’s Journalism Still Inspires Future Generations twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Today’s Journalism Still Inspires Future Generations by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 6, 2017 4:00 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 6, 2017 4:00 PM CUT **1\.** [**Can today’s journalism still inspire future generations?**](https://www.cjr.org/special%5Freport/trump-watergate-russia-washington-post.php "undefined") By Margaret Sullivan in the C_olumbia Journalism Review_ **2\.** [**Programs taking aim at the multigenerational cycle of poverty are working.**](https://psmag.com/magazine/breaking-the-cycle-of-poverty "undefined") By Dwyer Gunn in _Pacific Standard_ **3\.** [**How an assembly-line approach could end preventable blindness in one Indian state.**](https://qz.com/1086177/with-an-assembly-line-approach-an-indian-hospital-chain-performs-250000-eye-surgeries-a-year/ "undefined") By Maria Thomas in _Quartz_ **4\.** [**In the future, our clothes could be made from methane and clean the air.**](https://www.fastcompany.com/40476430/the-shirt-of-the-future-is-made-from-polyester-thats-been-created-by-methane-eating-bacteria "undefined") By Adele Peters in _Fast Company_ **5\.** [**The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life.**](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/24/why-lack-of-sleep-health-worst-enemy-matthew-walker-why-we-sleep "undefined") By Rachel Cooke in the _Guardian_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4972201/todays-journalism-still-inspires-future-generations/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4972201/todays-journalism-still-inspires-future-generations/"},"headline":"Today’s Journalism Still Inspires Future Generations","datePublished":"2017-10-06T16:00:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:25.462Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4972201/todays-journalism-still-inspires-future-generations/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","poverty","Sleep","Journalism","Clothing","blindness"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4972201/todays-journalism-still-inspires-future-generations/","name":"Today’s Journalism Still Inspires Future Generations"}}]}] ```