Publisher's Statement
Facts Matter—Support Independent Journalism!
The fact is, huge swaths of this country have become news deserts. We have lost more than a third of our newspapers and two-thirds of our journalists in the past two decades. And increasingly, the papers that remain are being bought up by billionaires, corporations and private equity firms more interested in cutting costs than serving communities.
The fact is, more than 50% of U.S. counties no longer have local news resources. Why does that matter? Because citizens no longer know what is going on in their own city hall or school board, and local voices no longer have a platform. Local news is essential to our democracy. It crushes political polarization and holds government accountable.
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Liz Flynt, Publisher
