On today's show:
– Illinois State Rep. La Shawn Ford, 8th District, and candidate in the 7th District of Illinois 
– Jon Marshall, associate professor in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern and author of “Clash: Presidents and the Press in Times of Crisis” 
– Mark Jacob of Stop the Presses, “a weekly newsletter about how right-wing extremism has exploited the weaknesses in American journalism, and what we can do about it”
– Haley Cohen Gilliland, director of the Yale Journalism Initiative and author of A Flower Traveled in My Blood

Catch "Joan Esposito: Live, Local and Progressive" weekdays from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/live-local-progressive).