Opinion | Why Has Local News Collapsed? Blame Readers.

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Opinion | Why Has Local News Collapsed? Blame Readers.
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Despite all the impassioned pleas to salvage local news coverage, the reality is there’s a demand-side problem

stands at about 52,000 Sunday and 29,000 daily, which can be read as the community’s repudiation of the paper or their disinterest in local news—or both., would like to see local news to be declared a public good—an essential service that nobody can make money providing—and unleash governments to finance it with subsidies, refundable tax credits , tax incentives, government advertising and other interventions.

All the studies, monographs and public good arguments in the world aren’t likely to win readers over. It’s telling that two of America’s best and most successful newspapers, the Jeff Bezos-owned, have deprioritized local news in recent decades. Maybe they know something the local news touts don’t.

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