Hello and welcome to the ghosting the news episode of Sleep Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. It's a heavy media edition

this week because not only do we have the three normal journalists who are always on this show,

that is myself, Felix Samuel Vakseus. We have Emily Peck of Huffpost. Hello. We have Anna Szymansky of Breaking Views.

Hello.

And we don't just have a journalist special guest.

We have a meta-journalist special guest.

We have Margaret Sullivan of the Washington Post.

Welcome.

Thank you.

You write a must-read media column for the Washington Post, and then in your spare time, you write books for Columbia Global Reports. This is your opportunity. Plug your book.

Ah, well, I've written a book about the decline of local news and what it means for our democracy, and it's called, just as this episode of Slate Money is called, ghosting the news,

local journalism and the crisis of American democracy. So yes, you know, my publication date was very

recently. And check it out. It's a brief and breezy read. It is a brief and breezy read. I can recommend it. And we are going to be

covering a lot of what you cover in that book in this episode. We're going to talk about the

decline of local newspapers. We're going to talk a little bit about these hedge funds who are buying

them up. We're going to talk about democracy. We're going to talk about bias in news reporting. I believe Emily Peck that we are

going to get dragged in a little bit into the debate about the discourse and Barry Weiss,

if you can believe it. We are going to talk about unions. We are going to talk about whether

news should be publicly funded. We have so much going on.

And I promise myself that this wouldn't just be a media navel gazing show, but it does seem to

have turned into a media navel gazing show. There's lots of media on this show for all of you

media nerds. I hope you enjoy it. It's all coming up on Slate Money.

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