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Steven Waldman

James Madison: “A tax on newspapers” would be “an insidious forerunner to something worse”

John Fea   |  April 3, 2023

About a year ago, Current published Steven Waldman‘s piece “The Return of Local News.” Waldman is the president and cofounder of Report for America, an initiative of the GroundTruth Project. He also serves as chair of the Rebuild Local News Coalition. […]

Local journalism is “civic infrastructure”

John Fea   |  June 7, 2021

Over the weekend I wrote a piece here at Current arguing that there was historical precedent for thinking about infrastructure development as something larger than just roads and bridges. I quoted John Quincy Adams’s first annual message to Congress. Here […]