Capturing local journalism’s last refuges

Capturing local journalism’s last refuges

A new photography collection spotlights the last refuges of America’s dwindling local newspapers. Photojournalist Ann Hermes traveled to the offices of the Ipswich Local News (Massachusetts), the Juneau Empire (Alaska), and 50 more newsrooms in between to document the endangered local journalist’s increasingly dim and drafty habitations. More than 3,000 papers have folded since 2005, as smaller staffs, never glamorously appointed, have been rele…