In our polarized and lies-infested world, journalism should return to a focus on finding facts and providing context.
Reporters should see news conferences as opportunities to give readers, viewers and listeners the context they need to understanding the situation… not simply to find a headline.
TV organizations should return to focusing on the news. Commercial temptations are causing producers to celebrate celebrity and celebrities, create endless commercial breaks, shorten too many important stories, and increase the overall speed of everything. Morning and evening news programs have become exhausting for everyone.
Too many newscasts now rely on dramatically edited crime, shootings, extremist statements, and crisis headlines to grab an audience and hold it well into the program. Competition is usually what drives these decisions.
Journalists must become less worried about career and commercial success… and more broadly about democracy and what saving one requires of them.
Larry D. Lauer 
Great suggestions. You need to take charge and make the news more rational.
Non-profit news organizations can help, I believe. They can focus on in-depth reporting that has largely disappeared from the for-profit news business. Spotlight PA, for example, does some fine work. https://www.spotlightpa.org/.
Larry, did you see this piece in TCU Magazine?