Losing a local newspaper feels like a bigger blow than most.
Closures like The Vindicator's are sadly more common than ever across the country, as old-school newsrooms struggle to compete with digital operations that aggregate web content but lack editorial oversight or seasoned reporters who have a deep understanding of their local area.
In the past 15 years, the country has lost 1,800 local news organizations, according to a report by the University of North Carolina Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media.
Half of the country's 3,143 counties have just one newspaper to cover sprawling, often isolated territories, while nearly 200 counties have no newspaper at all, the report said.
"A local newspaper is to a community what a central nervous system is to a body," said Paul Sracic, a political science professor at Youngstown State University.
At the local school, Becky Ford has used The Vindicator as a resource for the American history and social studies classes she teaches.
Although the internet is a great source of information, the virtual communities that exist on sites like Reddit aren't local or even identifiable.
https://townhall.com/columnists/salenazito/2019/08/13/the-death-of-a-local-newspaper-rocks-america-to-its-core-n2551558
Closures like The Vindicator's are sadly more common than ever across the country, as old-school newsrooms struggle to compete with digital operations that aggregate web content but lack editorial oversight or seasoned reporters who have a deep understanding of their local area.
In the past 15 years, the country has lost 1,800 local news organizations, according to a report by the University of North Carolina Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media.
Half of the country's 3,143 counties have just one newspaper to cover sprawling, often isolated territories, while nearly 200 counties have no newspaper at all, the report said.
"A local newspaper is to a community what a central nervous system is to a body," said Paul Sracic, a political science professor at Youngstown State University.
At the local school, Becky Ford has used The Vindicator as a resource for the American history and social studies classes she teaches.
Although the internet is a great source of information, the virtual communities that exist on sites like Reddit aren't local or even identifiable.
https://townhall.com/columnists/salenazito/2019/08/13/the-death-of-a-local-newspaper-rocks-america-to-its-core-n2551558
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