America’s founders based our republic on the revolutionary idea of an engaged citizenry — that average men and women would participate in elections, decide who runs the government and how to improve society thanks to the free flow of high quality, trustworthy journalism. What happens to democracy when trustworthy news is absent from local communities — or that information is flowing for the good of corporations or bankers, instead of residents of local communities? Margaret Coker discusses the disappearance of in-depth local journalism across America, the rise of disinformation and how nonprofit news outlets like The Current seek to reverse that trend and bolster democracy in the process.
Margaret Coker is a prize-winning investigative journalist, who over nineteen years has covered stories from thirty-two countries on four continents. As Turkey bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, Coker contributed to a 2016 series that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting. As Baghdad Bureau Chief the New York Times, she turned a front-page story about an elite Iraqi intelligence unit into a best-selling nonfiction book The Spymaster of Baghdad. In 2020 she co-founded The Current, a non-profit news organization that provides original, in-depth watchdog journalism affecting Savannah and Coastal Georgia.
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