Over the last 20 years, local news has seen massive consolidations, as small town papers lost advertisers and were forced to sell to large corporations. Since then, the number of newspaper ...

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

More than 3,200 print newspapers have vanished in the past two decades and continue to disappear at a rate of more than two every week, according to the 2024 State of Local News report by ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...