The North Shore Leader broke the Santos story and now media critics are saying that the failure of it to impact the election is somehow the fault of the public, which is letting little papers die. This doesn’t seem right.
Why aren’t the bigger papers reading the smaller papers in their regions and amplifying and crediting their reporting when they break news?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/29/north-shore-leader-santos-scoop/
@danielschuman ...
the bigger papers are BUYING the smaller papers in their regions and laying off their newsrooms.
@callisto I thought that was being done by hedge funds? I guess it's kinda the same.
The hedge fund Alden Global Capital has been acquiring scores of U.S. newspapers across the country — then gutting newsrooms and selling off assets. It’s part of a larger trend in the erosion of local news and related jobs in the last decade. A look at Alden Global Capital is the cover story of the latest issue of The Atlantic. Staff writer McKay Coppins joins John Yang with more.
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