Pew Research Center found that 85% of U.S. adults believe local news is at least somewhat important to their community's well-being, with 44% calling it extremely or very important. The problem is that the economics of serving them have collapsed around an industry that Google and Meta hollowed out by capturing the advertising revenue local newsrooms once depended on.
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