Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy

How the current epidemic of news deserts and ghost papers threatens democracy Ghosting the News tells the...
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Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy by Sullivan, Margaret

Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy

$36.20

Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy

$36.20
Author: Margaret Sullivan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
How the current epidemic of news deserts and ghost papers threatens democracy

Ghosting the News tells the most troubling media story of our time: How democracy suffers when local news dies. From 2004 to 2015, 1,800 print newspaper outlets closed in the U.S. One in five news organizations in Canada has closed since 2008. One in three Brazilians lives in news deserts. The absence of accountability journalism has created an atmosphere in which indicted politicians were elected, school superintendents were mismanaging districts, and police chiefs were getting mysterious payouts. This is not the much-discussed fake-news problem--it's the separate problem of a critical shortage of real news.

America's premier media critic, Margaret Sullivan, charts the contours of the damage, and surveys a range of new efforts to keep local news alive--from non-profit digital sites to an effort modeled on the Peace Corps. No nostalgic paean to the roar of rumbling presses, Ghosting the News instead sounds a loud alarm, alerting citizens to a growing crisis in local news that has already done serious damage.

Author: Margaret Sullivan
Publisher: Columbia Global Reports
Published: 07/14/2020
Pages: 105
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.40h x 4.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781733623780


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2020

About the Author
Margaret Sullivan is the media columnist for The Washington Post, the former public editor of The New York Times, and the former chief editor of The Buffalo News, where she started her career as an intern. She is a former member of the Pulitzer Prize board. She lives in New York City.

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