Ghosting the News, as the bearer of very bad news about the news itself, adopts an aptly funereal feel. But Sullivan—a media columnist at The Washington Post, a former public editor at The New York Times, and a longtime chief editor of The Buffalo News—is also offering an opportunity: to recalibrate our vision.

In Sullivan’s conversations across the country, readers told her they were aware of the problem — they saw local news as increasingly partisan or shallow. But they apparently hadn’t made a crucial connection: The decline in quality is due to the erosion of the industry’s financial foundation.

[An] insightful, sobering analysis of the modern news landscape.

Sullivan is the perfect person to diagnose the problem.

... a brisk and pointed tribute to painstaking, ordinary and valuable work.

If Ms. Sullivan’s book had been published 10 or 20 years ago, I suspect she would have found much more room to discuss the need for diversity in the newsroom.

A dire warning on the decline of daily newspapers and the danger that their disappearance poses for democracy.