Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

Daily newspapers are closing across America. Washington bureaus are shuttering; whole areas of the federal government are now operating with no press coverage. International bureaus are going, going, gone.

 

Journalism, the counterbalance to corporate and political power, the lifeblood of American democracy, is not just threatened. It is in meltdown.

 

In The Death and Life of American Journalism, Robert W. McChesney, an academic, and John Nichols, a journalist, who together founded the nation's leading media reform network, Free Press, investigate the crisis. They propose a bold strategy for saving journalism that looks back to how the Founding Fathers ensured free press protection with the First Amendment and provided subsidies to the burgeoning print press of the young nation.

 

John Nichols is president of the Liberty Tree Foundation, and Robert W. McChesney is a member of our Board of Advisors. Congratulations to both of them on their new book! You can find it here: