October 17, 2021

Survival of local news: The view from on the ground

The latest from the Post and Courier's excellent "Uncovered" series documenting how corruption flourishes when local news withers. This is an on-the-ground look at the perilous situation in Union, SC, known nationally for the Susan Smith child drowning case.

The once-daily folded, a victim of economic pressures that became too intense with coronavirus, and now two former employees who started a competing weekly wonder how it will survive.

https://www.postandcourier.com/uncovered/when-newspapers-close-bonds-among-locals-weaken-and-misdeeds-can-thrive/article_061d9232-1ca4-11ec-aa28-db60cb26b797.html

(Warning: possible paywall.)

The story also references Newstart, a program at the University of West Virginia to encourage people to buy local papers and train them how to run them.

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