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"An excellent introduction to the essential problem of our
republic. With a wake-up call like this one, we still have a
chance." -Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny Ghosting the News
tells the most troubling media story of our time: How democracy
suffers when local news dies. From 2004 to 2015, 1,800 print
newspaper outlets closed in the US. One in five news organizations
in Canada has closed since 2008. One in three Brazilians lives in
news deserts. The absence of accountability journalism has created
an atmosphere in which indicted politicians were elected, school
superintendents were mismanaging districts, and police chiefs were
getting mysterious payouts. This is not the much-discussed
fake-news problem-it's the separate problem of a critical shortage
of real news. America's premier media critic, Margaret Sullivan,
charts the contours of the damage, and surveys a range of new
efforts to keep local news alive-from non-profit digital sites to
an effort modeled on the Peace Corps. No nostalgic paean to the
roar of rumbling presses, Ghosting the News instead sounds a loud
alarm, alerting citizens to a growing crisis in local news that has
already done serious damage.
Over her four decades of working in newsrooms big and small,
Margaret Sullivan has become a trusted champion and critic of the
American news media. In this bracing memoir, Sullivan traces her
life in journalism and how trust in the mainstream press has
steadily eroded. Sullivan began her career at the Buffalo News,
where she rose from summer intern to editor in chief. In Newsroom
Confidential she chronicles her years in the trenches battling
sexism and throwing elbows in a highly competitive newsroom. In
2012, Sullivan was appointed the public editor of The New York
Times, the first woman to hold that important role. She was in the
unique position of acting on behalf of readers to weigh the actions
and reporting of the paper's staff, parsing potential lapses in
judgment, unethical practices, and thorny journalistic issues.
Sullivan recounts how she navigated the paper's controversies, from
Hillary Clinton's emails to Elon Musk's accusations of unfairness
to the need for greater diversity in the newsroom. In 2016, having
served the longest tenure of any public editor, Sullivan left for
the Washington Post, where she had a front-row seat to the rise of
Donald Trump in American media and politics. With her celebrated
mixture of charm, sharp-eyed observation, and nuanced criticism,
Sullivan takes us behind the scenes of the nation's most
influential news outlets to explore how Americans lost trust in the
news and what it will take to regain it.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This book describes statistical concepts and techniques for
evaluating medical diagnostic tests and biomarkers for detecting
disease. More generally, the techniques pertain to the statistical
classification problem for predicting a dichotomous outcome.
Measures for quantifying test accuracy are described including
sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, diagnostic likelihood
ratios and the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve that is
commonly used for continuous and ordinal valued tests. Statistical
procedures are presented for estimating and comparing them.
Regression frameworks for assessing factors that influence test
accuracy and for comparing tests while adjusting for such factors
are presented. This book presents many worked examples of real data
and should be of interest to practicing statisticians or
quantitative researchers involved in the development of tests for
classification or prediction in medicine.
The authors deliver concise annotations of 85 picture books;
notations about the illustrative elements found in each book are
followed by novel, theme, and curriculum connections. A chart is
included, showing how each of the tides connects to different areas
of the curriculum. Practical language arts, math, science, social
studies, art, and music activities are suggested in ways to
encourage a deeper understanding of the books.
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