As local newspapers die, is America’s democracy dying with them?

TWO REPORTERS
31/10/2021 37 min
As local newspapers die, is America’s democracy dying with them?

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Maybe you never read the Birmingham Post-Herald or Green Bay News-Chronicle, but thousands of papers like them have died in recent years. That’s left a vacuum – which other media have helped fill with propaganda, opinion and outright lies. The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos returns to Two Reporters to diagnose the troubling causes, and describe an intriguing strategy to revive local news.

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