Nearly one hundred USA local newsrooms have been shut down and closed, not for good, but for bad during the global pandemic.
As someone who not only believes in the crucial need for local news and has devoted years of my life building and working in local newsrooms, it is devastating to have to report that COVID is destroying local news.
The pandemic cost journalism jobs and ending newsrooms.
According to The Poynter Institute in many places, it started with a cut in print days. Furloughs. Layoffs. Just to get through the crisis, newsroom leaders told readers. In some places, none of it was enough.
More than 85 American newsrooms have closed down during the coronavirus. pandemic. https://www.poynter.org/locally/2021/the-coronavirus-has-closed-more-th…
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