Local Journalism in Crisis: Why America Must Revive Its Local Newsrooms

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12 November 2019

This report examines how “thousands of local newspapers have closed” and “left millions of Americans without a vital source of local news and deprived communities of an institution essential for exposing wrongdoing” where “those still surviving...have laid off reporters, reduced coverage, and pulled back circulation” (Brookings Institution, 2019).

Publisher: Brookings

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