Idaho Press: Newspapers are a free speech zone. Enter at your own risk.
by Nathan Alford 2020 was a dark and difficult year across our country and around the world. Some of us
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DEATH
Northwoods Star Journal: The cost to all citizens in a community when a newspaper closes
By Andrew Johnson The financial health of these newspapers has been challenged in recent years with loss of local retail
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BMTN: Weekly newspapers serving eastern Twin Cities cease publication
Several communities in the eastern Twin Cities have lost a source of local news after the apparent shutdown of Lillie
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NYT Editor: Most newspapers are going to die in next five years
THE HILL BY Joe Concha New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet is predicting that “most local newspapers are going to
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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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