Columnist Margaret Sullivan started out in a vibrant local-newspaper industry. Now it’s vanishing, leaving our very democracy in peril. – The Washington Post

By: Robert Washburn | July 9, 2020

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Book review of Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy by Margaret Sullivan – The Washington Post

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