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The Town Without A Newspaper

Newspapers in more than 1,400 towns and cities across the country have closed over the past 15 years, including one that had served readers in Missouri's Ozark region for over half a century.
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Waynesville, Missouri, became a statistic when its newspaper shut down. Now, Darrell Todd Maurina’s posts to Facebook are the main source of news in the town. Read the story:

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With no local newspaper, the extent of the opioid crisis goes unreported in Waynesville, Missouri, where it claimed the life of Sheriff Jimmy Bench’s son. Story:

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"It was a terrible loss for us." A Missouri mayor recounts losing a town's only newspaper in an era when local journalism is dying in plain sight. Story:

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For one small-town banker in Missouri, losing the local newspaper was like losing "the heartbeat of a town." Waynesville’s loss represents the larger issue of fading local journalism. Story:

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