December 23, 2024

Part One: Professor Chang Lee of the University of Illinois at Chicago discusses her research published by Brookings on the impact of newspaper closures on public finance. In other words, when newspapers close, the cost of government goes up.

Part Two: David Hawkings was a senior editor at Roll Call, who recently left. He discusses his latest (and last) piece for Roll Call, “The 5 M’s for Describing Why Congress is Broken.”