Newsmakers meet New Yorkers as host Brian Lehrer and his guests take on the issues dominating conversation in New York and around the world. This daily program from WNYC Studios cuts through the usual talk radio punditry and brings a smart, humane approach to the day's events and what matters most in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, Death, Sex & Money, Nancy, and many others.
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Local News and Democracy
Margaret Sullivan, The Washington Post's media columnist and the author of Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy (Columbia Global Reports, 2020), talks about the larger implications of a lack of local news coverage and the impact on government accountability, tax spending and community development.