Betting on the Success of Local Journalism

Posted Thursday, June 14, 2018 10:45 am

Douglas K. Smith | CJR

If you work in local news, you know the misery numbers. Good things spiral down: more than a quarter million jobs lost over the past three decades; year after year of double digit percentage declines in print circulation; tens of billions of dollars of lost advertising revenue. Bad things spike: news deserts, zombie news enterprises, fake news, public distrust.

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