| Mar 6, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyAmerica’s media institutions have had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad start to 2024. The Messenger, a well-funded, high-profile news site, dissolved after less than a year. Big newspapers from the Los Angeles Times to the IndyStar saw major layoffs. And Sports...
| Feb 28, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI no longer receive my local newspaper, the Austin-American Statesman. Oh, the paper still comes, but it’s just paper, minus the news part — news that our community once counted on to keep up with local government doings, corporate shenanigans, citizen actions, and...
| Aug 23, 2023 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyHow about a little bit of good news for a change? Specifically, good news about news. The demise of local newspapers has been a very depressing story in the last few years, with several thousand of them gobbled up by Wall Street profiteers. Those moneyed powers loot...
| Oct 26, 2022 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThroughout the country, newspaper subscribers are asking questions like: Hey, who took my Saturday paper? What happened to those political cartoons and columns that I liked? Why does it take two days to get election results and sports scores? How did my local paper...
| Oct 19, 2022 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyMy newspaper died. Well, technically it still appears. But it has no life, no news, and barely a pulse. It’s a mere semblance of a real paper, one of the hundreds of local journalism zombies staggering along in cities and towns that had long relied on them. Each one...
