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Ghosting the News

Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy

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Ghosting the News

By: Margaret Sullivan
Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
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 Ghosting the News tells the most troubling media story of our time: How democracy suffers when local news dies. Reporting on news-impoverished areas in the U.S. and around the world, America's premier media critic, Margaret Sullivan, charts the contours of the damage but also surveys some 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 the growing crisis in local news that has already done serious damage. She explains how a lack of local news in communities results in more polarization, less political engagement, and more poorly informed citizens who are less capable of making good decisions about governance. And she does it all through the lens of a journalist who spent most of her career in local news, including nearly thirteen years as the top editor of a regional newspaper, The Buffalo News. If local newspapers are on the brink of extinction, we ought to know the full extent of the losses now, before it's too late. Elections & Political Process Politics & Government Social Sciences United States World Career
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I found out about this book in The Washington Post in an article written by the author, Margaret Sullivan.

The book is quite depressing about the decline of local newspapers. It seems to go from newsroom to newsroom detailing job losses and cuts starting in Margaret's hometown of Buffalo in the USA.

By the end of the book you get the sense there is not much hope for local newspapers as no solutions are offered up to the problem.

All in all Margaret is a brilliant journalist and author. And this book is an important entry into the chronicling of local newspapers and their decline due to the Internet.

A Sad Tale About The Decline of Local News

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