The problem with local newpapers

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An upbeat report on the future of print journalism prompts a wake-up call from Nikki Usher. on the Nieman Journalism Lab: "This celebratory conviction of journalists doing God’s work to protect the community appears throughout every portrait of the 50 newspapers profiled. But there’s an underlying, unacknowledged fact: Local news, and in particular local news online, is not something people care about as much as local journalists might hope."

May 10, 2012

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