The loss of local newspapers and reporters takes away our understanding of what we can expect from life. Instead, we are to rely on vagaries and rumors spread via the internet, some of it good ...

and there often isn’t another media source in the area to compensate for the newspaper’s loss. Legislation to support local ...

As similar areas without a newspaper closure did not see those effects, they theorise that the loss of scrutiny on local government led to more mismanagement of public funds. And epidemiologists ...

Pressured by the evolution of broadcast and digital media—and by the loss of advertising-based funding models—newspapers went into decline. Local ownership, and the diversity of opinions ...

Recognizing that local newspapers are between a rock and hard ... I can’t blame them, but I certainly can mourn the tragic loss of ideas that it implies. Linda Rugel-Swanson Lancaster Township ...

And just a few weeks ago, Bartlett suffered the loss of another business: its hometown newspaper. The Tribune Progress, which had been published nearly every week since its inception in 1886 ...

The Balonne Beacon is just one of hundreds of newspapers that have ceased printing ... the risk to accountable government from the loss of local news is causing concern. Anna Draffin, chief ...

Ledger's announcement that it will no longer offer a print edition come February. “The news about the Star-Ledger, Jersey ...

Local crises, like the desperately needed upgrade of water and sewer systems, are going unreported. And there is no one to keep disinformation in check, like when the newspaper published a series ...

He was a local historian, describing how farmers sold angora fiber to be spun into mohair at a mercantile near the main drag. He was an amateur lepidopterist, gently waving away swarms of monarch ...

Medill found the number of local newspapers is down to just under 5,600 ... the detrimental effects we see in news deserts — the loss of civic engagement, the loss of voter participation.” ...

and there often isn’t another media source in the area to compensate for the newspaper’s loss. Legislation to support local newspapers is critical to maintaining these trusted, vital media ...