At the moment, its hard to say... I'm loathe to say, "Nothing", but that may actually be the most correct answer.
Institutions have completely squandered what little trust the public once had in them.
I think we're living through a very specific period of history in which we're going to see some sort of new paradigm emerge and become dominant. Citizen journalism has been on the rise - I don't know how long, I admit I don't pay much attention to it - and established journalists like Matt Taibbi are moving to Substack.
I don't know what the future might hold, but I don't think the next 100 years will look at all like the past 100 years, at least insofar as the concept of "news" is concerned.
Every single outlet you just listed is just as bad as the New York Times... /r/news is absolutely the worst cesspool shithole I've ever encountered on reddit, with the possible exception of /r/politics.
It isn't just their rabid anti-conservative bias, which I'm more or less fine with as its pretty clear their possessed by their ideologies, but its their fascism of banning anyone who has a different opinion, while hilariously hiding behind "fighting fascism". I guess it makes sense though... fight fire with fire, fight fake fascism with real fascism...
Maybe the problem is with human's inherent intellectual laziness.
Maybe instead of visiting numerous sites and forming their own opinion people wait for a single news source to spoon feed them their thoughts for the day.
You can be lazy or you can get closer to the truth.
Oh got it. Yeah I'm kinda skeptical of reddit as a dedicated news source, it has issues... even just skewing the context of articles with wonky titles and such.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_controversies_involvin...
So much for your "paper of record". It's the Paper of the Establishment. And always has been.