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Over 100 local newspapers close during pandemic

donal brown November 30, 2021

While since 2004 some 1,800 newspapers shut down, there has been a recent surge in closures owing to the strains of the pandemic with mostly weeklies in small communities ending their coverage. (Poynter, November 20, 2021, by Kristen Hare) Poynter compiled a comprehensive list of layoffs, furloughs and closures during the pandemic. (Poynter, November 30, 2021, by Kristen Hare) The Post published a story with instances of local issues that are under reported or missed.

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Are Myths Killing the Newspaper Business?

FAC February 24, 2010

Are newspapers dead, dead, dead? If you can believe everything you read in them, apparently so. Hal Fuson, a veteran of 44-years in the news business, didn’t think those obituary writers had their stories straight. In fact, they were reporting myths about the dire state of the industry as though they were facts. When Fuson, who is a member of FAC’s board, recently retired from Copley Press, decided to set the record straight. “I had

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