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Why some towns lose local news − and others don’t

  • Written by Abby Youran Qin, Ph.D. candidate at School of Journalism & Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Why some towns lose local news − and others don’tFive elements determine which towns lose their papers and which ones beat the odds.Hans Henning Wenk/Getty Images

Why did your hometown newspaper vanish while the next town over kept theirs?

This isn’t bad luck − it’s a systemic pattern. Since 2005, the United States has lost over one-third of its local newspapers, creating...

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