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American Deadline: Reporting from Four News-Starved Towns in the Trump Era

American Deadline: Reporting from Four News-Starved Towns in the Trump Era

Glassner, Greg
Richardson, Charles
Sanchez, Sandra

Paperback

Series: Columbia Journalism Review Books

Writing Instruction21st Century United States HistoryGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0231208413
ISBN13: 9780231208413
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: May 2 2023
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.45 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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 a broader American story. This book reports on how residents of these towns grapple with and talk about issues relating to race, schooling, health, immigration, deindustrialization, as well as local and national politics amid a changing and increasingly precarious information ecosystem. A distinct and intimate look at a calamitous year, American Deadline is an important book for all readers interested in the possibilities and future of local journalism.

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