Washington Post -The United States has lost about 2,500 local newspapers — one-quarter of the total — since 2005, and papers continue to fold at the rate of two per week, Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism calculates. Seven percent of Americans now have no local news source whatsoever, and even those who still have a community newspaper are more likely than not to find little, if any, local content in them. Newsroom employment has shrunk by 60 percent since 2005, turning many small publications into “ghost newspapers” that publish only syndicated content produced elsewhere.
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Fantastic and timely but sad commemtary about the demise of local newspapers which were once the voice of their communities.
Semper Paratus
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