Even the Pope is worried about the news business.

In an era when news programming is often seen as polarizing and outspoken hosts and anchors can serve to pull audiences apart, a group of the world’s most prominent news executives flew to Rome to offer some commitments to ideals such as fellowship and truth — even as market forces make such promises more difficult to keep.

The news chiefs traveled to a “World Meeting on Human Fraternity,” an event in its third year that takes place in 2025 in the wake of Pope Leo XIV ‘s recent comments that a lack of hope can result from “the fact that we fixate on a certain rigid and closed way of seeing things.” Among those who were invited were Mark Thompson , CEO of CNN ; David Rhodes, executive president of Sky News Group; Jay Wallace, presid

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