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08/02/2018

NPR's David Folkenflik says newspapers' role as watchdogs has never been more important

From Cleveland.com

NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik said the business prospects for print newspapers are declining at the same time that their watchdog role in exposing corruption and holding the powerful accountable has never been more important. 

For the public, the greatest cost of closing newspapers and laying off journalists is that without someone keeping an eye on the government, "you don't know what you don't know," he told the City Club of Cleveland on Tuesday. He spent 13 years working for newspapers including the Baltimore Sun before joining NPR in 2004.

Folkenflik also appeared at the Beachwood Branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library on Monday night to talk about and sign copies of his 2013 book, "Murdoch's World: The Last of the Old Media Empires."

Folkenflik's talk at the City Club was timed to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the first issue of Cleveland's first newspaper, The Cleaveland Gazette & Commercial Register.

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