Local News Coverage is Declining — And That Could be Bad for American Politics

Posted Wednesday, June 2, 2021 10:46 am

Joshua Darr | FiveThirtyEight

The laws of supply and demand aren’t working for local news.

The local news business was devastated by COVID-19, even though consumers wanted more of its product. Visits to local news websites spiked by 89 percent from February to March 2020, but newspapers did not profit from having more readers...

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Local News Coverage is Declining — And That Could be Bad for American Politics

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