Margaret Sullivan, Guardian - Newspapers have faded and the growth of digital news outlets – while encouraging – hasn’t kept up with the losses. There are far fewer reporters now than 15 years ago, and they are much more concentrated in places like Washington DC and New York City. Local newspapers go out of business every week. That turns huge swaths of the US into “news deserts” – places where there is virtually no credible local journalism. Democracy suffers as citizens become less engaged and more polarized, and as government corruption flourishes because the watchdog has gone silent.
The irony is that local and regional journalism is more trusted than national reporting. But the old business model has failed as its lifeblood (print advertising) has dried up; digital advertising and subscriptions haven’t come on strong enough, and hedge funds have swooped in to peck out the end-stage profits.
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Printing and print journalism was a partof my early work history and the scent of printers still wafts through my nostrils as dose the satisfaction of being part of the delivery of important news. The business model is gone and we often get only part of or biased reporting. Digital news is transitory, here mnow but off intro the vapor far too quickly Hopefully there is a new business model to deliver the truth.
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