A Powerful Tool for Fighting Corruption Is Going
Extinct
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/26/opinion/local-newspapers-democracy-journalism.html
In the early 1900s, America had about 24,000 weekly and daily papers. The number dropped throughout the 20th century, and the pace has greatly accelerated over the past two decades. “Today we have only 6,000 surviving newspapers, many struggling to survive,” said the report. And they are continuing to vanish at the rate of more than two a week. Some areas have become “news deserts,” in Ms. Abernathy’s term, with no reliable news source — print, digital or broadcast. Most are in high-poverty areas.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/26/opinion/local-newspapers-democracy-journalism.html
In the early 1900s, America had about 24,000 weekly and daily papers. The number dropped throughout the 20th century, and the pace has greatly accelerated over the past two decades. “Today we have only 6,000 surviving newspapers, many struggling to survive,” said the report. And they are continuing to vanish at the rate of more than two a week. Some areas have become “news deserts,” in Ms. Abernathy’s term, with no reliable news source — print, digital or broadcast. Most are in high-poverty areas.