Longview TX: Texas A&M professor: Losing local newspapers means unhealthy local news ecosystems
By LouAnna Campbell Tyler Morning Telegraph TYLER — A communications associate professor from Texas A&M University says residents of towns
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Public Radio: Fewer Newspapers, More Partisanship
By RICH EGGER Scientific American recently conducted a study that found newspaper closures are linked to partisanship. The publication used voting data
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CityLab: When Local Newsrooms Shrink, Fewer Candidates Run for Mayor
A study of 11 California newspapers shows that when cities have fewer reporters, political competition and voter turnout suffer. By
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Maru/Matchbox Poll: Trust in newspapers & radio above 80 percent in U.S. & Canada. Social media, not so much
AFP | Ottawa Last Updated at April 10, 2019 02:35 IST About half of Americans and Canadians get their news primarily from social media,
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Washington (IN) Times-Herald: Raising our glasses to a departed friend — democracy
Somewhere on the outskirts of the great beyond there is a smoke-filled watering hole where Walter Cronkite is having a
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Forbes: Hedge Funds And Newspapers: A Bad Mix
by Michael Posner Two news stories this week captured conflicting forces at play in the struggle to preserve journalism. On the
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Clinton TN: Tennessee weekly debuts redesign
The first issue of the newly redesign Clinton Courier News was rushed by a change in page size by the
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Kevin Slimp: A Blast from the Past. I still believe Upton Sinclair had it right
by Kevin Slimp First published March 11, 2014 There was a time when I was one of the few national
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NPR: Local Newspaper Closures Come With Hefty Price Tag For Residents
by SHANKAR VEDANTAM Hundreds of newspapers have closed across the country. The loss of local reporting means fewer investigations into
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teleSUR: As More Newspapers fail, News ‘Deserts’ Expand in US: Study
More than 1,800 US newspapers have closed since 2004, leaving expanding “news deserts” with little or no local reporting on
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