American Deadline: Reporting from Four News-Starved Towns in the Trump Era Glassner Greg
The dramatic events of 2020-the presidential election, the COVID-19 pandemic, protests for racial justice-affected every corner of American life. What did these events mean for the residents of small…
Specifikacia American Deadline: Reporting from Four News-Starved Towns in the Trump Era Glassner Greg
The dramatic events of 2020-the presidential election, the COVID-19 pandemic, protests for racial justice-affected every corner of American life. What did these events mean for the residents of small towns and cities that are often overlooked by national newspapers? How do local stories change when they are told by journalists with roots in these communities? And what is lost as this kind of coverage disappears?American Deadline brings together dispatches from four longtime local journalists in different parts of the United States that tell the story of 2020 anew. It shares reporting from Bowling Green, Virginia; Macon, Georgia; McKeesport, Pennsylvania; and McAllen, Texas-two towns that lost their local newspapers and two where they are barely hanging on. The authors consider what makes each town distinctive and how these local perspectives tell a part of