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Editor's Letter How Can We Save Our Democracy? Start With Local News

The death of local news isn’t just a crisis in American journalism: If local news disappears, so does our democracy.

Lindsay Schrupp Lindsay Schrupp November 25, 2019 10:39 am EST

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