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13 hours agoIn Thunder Bay, Court Reporting Is Quietly Disappearing | The Walrus
Court reporting and local journalism are essential to due process and preventing false social-media claims about court proceedings.
When leadership at The Washington Post laid off more than 300 journalists last month, Post Local was among the hardest-hit sections. Successive rounds of cuts had already shrunk the section down to around 40 reporters and editors. (In the early 2000s, the metro department had around 200 journalists.) But the latest layoffs left the section with around a dozen journalists, a severe blow to an institution that had remained home to some of D.C.'s most ambitious local reporting.