Who will carry the torch?

Jim Moore
12 min readDec 4, 2021
Illustration by Jim Moore

Ghosting the News

In an upcoming Washington Post Perspective column, Post opinion writer Margaret Sullivan takes a heartfelt and hard-to-turn-away-from piece about the decline in community newspapers over the past few decades. In the article — “What America’s local news crisis means for our democracy.” Sullivan builds on a theme she began last year with the publication of Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the

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Jim Moore

Journalist, former Capitol Hill staff (House and Senate), former Cabinet speechwriter, editor, photojournalist and bird photographer. Top Writer Quora 2016–2017