Salish Current, a Bellingham-based online news organization, will host a forum on the importance of local news Thursday, March 17.
The event, “Trust2022: Why Independent Local News is Important to a Strong Democracy,” will be held 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 17 via Zoom. Feature speakers include Washington state attorney general Bob Ferguson, Margaret Sullivan, a Washington Post columnist and author of “Ghosting the news: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy;” and Pulitzer Prize journalist Hedrick Smith.
Salish Current is an online-only news source that started in 2020 and covers Whatcom, Skagit and San Juan counties. The event is sponsored in partnership with Village Books.
To register for the event, visit salish-current.org/trust2022.
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