The beginning of the Declaration of Independence is the greatest sentence ever written not because it handed a blueprint to Americans but because it is a perpetual challenge, according to historian Walter Isaacson, who spoke at ASU as part of a series of conversations reflecting on America at 250.

A new podcast from the Knight Center for the Future of News is looking beyond journalism’s usual conversations about platforms, paywalls, emerging technology and audience growth to ask what news might become if it were designed around how people actually encounter information, build trust, make meaning and connect with the world around them.