US lost more than two local newspapers a week this year, new Medill report finds - Poynter
Briefly

More than half of the counties in the U.S. have only one or no local news outlets.
In a lot of rural and less affluent counties, there just isn't any local journalism at all.
The loss of (newspapers and journalists) has not only short-circuited the flow of news and information across news organizations but has also made it harder for people to hold their state and local elected officials accountable.
Read at Poynter
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