Native information is disappearing in cities throughout the nation. From 2008 to 2019, the share of people that mentioned they acquired their information from native papers on daily basis fell by greater than half. In the identical time interval, the variety of newsroom jobs plummeted. The way in which Individuals get their information has modified and that may have lasting social and political impacts.
Elaine Godfrey, a workers author at The Atlantic, joins the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast to debate her current article about what occurred when a neighborhood paper disappeared from a small Iowa city. And Danny Hayes, a political science professor at George Washington College, additionally joins to speak about his analysis on the position native information performs in society and what occurs when it erodes.
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