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

by Margaret Sullivan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1733623787
• ISBN13: 9781733623780
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Columbia Global Reports
• Length: 105 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 7.4"