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What Works: The Future of Local News

From Northeastern University's School of Journalism. Local news, the bedrock of democracy, is in crisis.

Podcast · By Dan Kennedy and Ellen Clegg · English · Official site

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  1. Episode · Sep 20, 2026

    Episode 122: Margaret Sullivan (opens the original)

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    Dan talks with Margaret Sullivan , who has spent the last decade or so doing the toughest of jobs: Telling the country's most powerful newsrooms what they're getting wrong. She was the fifth public editor of The New York Times, from 2012 to 2016. Somebody once called it the worst job in journalism, but she took it anyway. Then she went to The Washington Post as media columnist, where she covered the 2016 and 2020 elections, the Trump years, and January 6th. She left the Post in 2022, which, in h

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