Ghosting the News (eBook)

Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy

Margaret Sullivan (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
Columbia Global Reports (Verlag)
978-1-7336237-9-7 (ISBN)

Infos

How the current epidemic of news deserts and ghost papers threatens democracyGhosting 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 problemit's the separate problem of a critical shortage of real news.Americas premier media critic, Margaret Sullivan, charts the contours of the damage, and surveys a range of new efforts to keep local news alivefrom 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.An excellent introduction to the essential problem of our republic. With a wake-up call like this one, we still have a chance. Timothy Snyder

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Schlagworte: american democracy in crisis • decline in subscriptions • declining local news coverage • Fake News • Journalism • Journalists • layoffs • local news • local news outlets • losing to online media • loss of advertising • media columnist • news desert • Newspapers • New York Times • The Washington Post • threat to democracy • towns with no local newspaper
• ISBN-10: 1-7336237-9-5 / 1733623795
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7336237-9-7 / 9781733623797