Professor Nikki Usher and the New York Times’ Matt Thompson will discuss Usher’s new book, “News for the Rich, White, and Blue: How Place and Power Distort American Journalism". The conversation, which will feature Q&A, will be recorded for CSPAN’s Book TV.
Usher is a senior fellow with the Center for Journalism & Liberty, a program of the Open Markets Institute. She maintains that the market failure in journalism means that news that feeds democracy is increasingly produced and consumed by elites living in big cities who have serious blind spots.
The book brings together compelling evidence about pertinent issues facing the journalism industry right now: philanthropy and digital advertising, Beltway/Heartland divides, hyper-partisanship and media distrust, and the growing challenges to building a diverse newsroom and producing journalism for a multicultural democracy.