I live in an isolated rural county (pop. 16k), and we have two competing, thriving newspapers. They have otherwise no competition, and much demand. The death of the small-town newspapers is less about the papers and more about the town.http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/11/newsonomics-newspapers-are-shells-of-their-former-selves-so-whos-going-to-build-what-comes-next-in-local/ …
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If your city is part of the urban archipelago of rootless elites who don't care about civil society because their phone and its apps provides it with all the services they need, then you're screwed. The NYT and whatever fashionable outlet will just clobber you.
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But if you're the newspaper to an economically vibrant community--community in the real sense--then you have zero competition, and a captive market. Where else will people go to know what's going on with their local issues?
1:27 PM - 6 Nov 2018
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