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Jim Friedlich's avatar

This is spot-on, @dicktofel. The value added of Local News is precisely that, local. The greatest destruction at the hands of hedge fund owners is the ghost newspaper largely devoid of original local content, rather than the creation of new news deserts devoid of newspapers all together. The best way to make money after all is to publish a cheap and cheesy product with little original local content rather than none at all. Your column is a reminder that it’s called “Local News” for a reason.

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Robert Sterner's avatar

I don't read the local paper for stories from AP, but for local news. So this makes sense. The HS paper I advise leans into this. I tell my student-reporters that we can't outdo big national news outlets for national or international news, but they'll never know your town and school as well as you do. So tell that story.

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