Ghosting the News:

Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy

Copyright © 2020 by Margaret Sullivan

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Sullivan, Margaret, 1957-author.

Title: Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy / Margaret Sullivan.

Description: New York: Columbia Global Reports, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references. |

Identifiers: LCCN 2020009379 | ISBN 9781733623780 (paperback)

Subjects: LCSH: Journalism, Regional--Political aspects--United States. | Local mass media--United States. | Press and politics--United States--History--21st century.

Classification: LCC PN4784.L6 S85 2020 | DDC 071/.3--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020009379

Book design by Strick&Williams

Map design by Jeffrey L. Ward

Author photograph by Michael Benabib

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