Mark Pothier expressed his emotions about the changes in local journalism, stating, "I thought it's my privilege to be a caretaker of it, nurture it, grow it into the 21st century, and then it will carry on, most of us were pretty naïve about the newspaper industry." This quote emphasizes the weight of responsibility he felt toward the legacy of the Old Colony Memorial.
Reflecting on the decline of local news, the article highlights Pothier's trajectory from a community reporter to an editor at The Boston Globe, mentioning, "Cut to 2023: Pothier had been an editor at The Boston Globe for 22 years, and the Old Colony Memorial, like dozens of Massachusetts community papers, had become a 'ghost paper.'" This illustrates the profound loss of local newsroom vitality over the years.
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