This is the second part of our interview with Margaret Sullivan.
Journalism is in crisis. The heart of the crisis isn’t what most people think it is—the bitter struggle between Donald Trump and news organizations. The heart of the crisis is economic. Quite rapidly in the twenty-first century, newspapers, traditionally the major generators of original journalism, have gone into a downward spiral that has resulted in the disappearance of about half of their editorial jobs.
Washington Post media critic Margaret Sullivan is back again to talk to us about her new book, Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy.
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Ghosting the News
Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy
Ghosting the News tells the most troubling media story of our time: How democracy suffers when local news dies.
“A brisk and pointed tribute to painstaking, ordinary and valuable work.” —Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times