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Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, aukštis x plotis: 190x127 mm, Maps
  • Išleidimo metai: 27-Aug-2020
  • Leidėjas: Columbia Global Reports
  • ISBN-10: 1733623787
  • ISBN-13: 9781733623780
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, aukštis x plotis: 190x127 mm, Maps
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  • Leidėjas: Columbia Global Reports
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  • ISBN-13: 9781733623780
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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 some of the 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 sound a loud alarm, alerting citizens to the growing crisis in local news that has already done serious damage. 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"--

Local journalism is on the verge of extinction and this is bad for democracy. This book explains why.

"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, author of On Tyranny

An Epidemic of News Deserts and Ghost Papers

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 US. 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.

Recenzijos

Named one of 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020 by The Washington Post









Selected as an NPR Best Book of 2020









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, author of On Tyranny









Ghosting the News is a brisk and pointed tribute to painstaking, ordinary and valuable work. Jennifer Szalai, New York Times









Margaret Sullivan has written one of the most timely books Ive ever seen, about the biggest threat to democracy that no one is talking about. Its that rare book about journalism that regular folks need to read.... Short yet vital. Will Bunch, The Philadelphia Inquirer









To write a book like Ghosting the News is to take on the challenge of proving a negativeto make a case for the urgency of the known unknown. Sullivan succeeds. Her book is an ink-bound alarm bell. The threat Americans face, she argues, is not just the news that lies. It is also the news that will never exist in the first place. Megan Garber, The Atlantic









An important book.... Sullivan is the perfect person to diagnose the problem. Sewell Chan, Los Angeles Times









Sullivan aims to amplify the long-running alarm that local news mediaentities core to local and national democracyare in more trouble than ever. The greatest risk, she writes, is that local newspapers especially are on the verge of disappearing forever, which could have severe ramifications during time when fact-based reporting is under siege. Fortune

Lays out the state of journalism in America, and the desperate need for its revival. Guardian









Insightful, sobering analysis of the modern news landscape. Dale Singer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch









Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivans book about what happens to local democracy when local newsrooms shrivel couldnt be publishing at a better time. Dean Miller, Seattle Times









Smart, tight and necessary.... Sullivans novella-length book is a siren in the night. Rick Holmes, CommonWealth Magazine









A no-nonsense retort to the notion that we live in a time of abundant information." Kirkus Reviews









A timely antidote for those outside the industry looking in. Rick Edmonds, Poynter









Quality journalism takes time and investment to produce, and it deserves our time and investment to preserve and appreciate. Our very democracy depends on it. Dylan Schleicher, Porchlight Books

Introduction 13(15)
Chapter One Leaving Buffalo
28(8)
Chapter Two The Unregulated Toll Bridge
36(14)
Chapter Three News Deserts, Ghost Papers, and Beacons of Hope
50(18)
Chapter Four Global Problems
68(5)
Chapter Five New Models
73(16)
Conclusion 89(8)
Acknowledgments 97(2)
Further Reading 99(2)
Notes 101
Margaret Sullivan is The Washington Post's media columnist and one of the nation's foremost authorities on journalism and the press. Previously, she was the longest-serving public editor of The New York Times, critiquing the paper on behalf of its readers. She began her career at The Buffalo News, where she rose through the ranks to become the paper's first female editor. Sullivan is a graduate of Georgetown University and has a masters in journalism from Northwestern University. Sullivan was twice elected a director of the American Society of News Editors, where she led the First Amendment committee, and she is a former member of the Pulitzer Prize board.