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DESCRIPTION:The presidential election is on everyone's mind\, but this year
  there are also tens of thousands of elections for city and county offices 
 across the country. Yet few Americans know much about them\, in part becaus
 e of a crisis in the local news business. In the last two decades\, thousan
 ds of local newspapers have closed\, and virtually every remaining paper ha
 s slashed its reporting staff. As a result\, Americans have become less kno
 wledgeable about their local governments and less likely to turn out to vot
 e in local elections.\n\nHayes’ talk will draw on two decades of data to sh
 ow how the decline of local news in the United States is threatening the fo
 undations of local democracy. \n\nHayes is a professor of political science
  at George Washington University. A former journalist\, his research focuse
 s on the media\, public opinion and elections. He is the author of three bo
 oks published by Cambridge University Press. The most recent\, “News Hole: 
 The Demise of Local Journalism and Political Engagement” (2021)\, was award
 ed the Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on
  Media\, Politics and Public Policy.\n\nModerated by Clinton Jenkins\, Ph.D
 .\, assistant professor of political science at Lenoir-Rhyne.
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SUMMARY:Danny Hayes\, Ph.D.: "The Local News Crisis and American Elections"
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 rican-elections
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