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[lostnfound]

It’s a good time to subscribe online if you can, to those few remaining newspapers that aren’t part of a big right wing monopoly.

Newsprint has become so expensive due to taxes imposed on imported newsprint from Canada that those such papers that still survive are really struggling now.

They need to adjust their business model even more, but for now, it would be nice not to lose any more of them.

When I was a child, my hometown of St. Pete was home to a wonderful paper connected to a nonprofit journalism institute. They aren’t like they used to be, but I’d like to see them endure and recover.

The Washington post is my go-to paper, but losing the variety of papers across the country has been a big loss compared to the 1970s.

[hlthe2b]

1. Not long ago Denver had both the Denver Post and Rocky Mtn News; Atlanta used to have the morning

Constitution and the evening Atlanta Journal, now the two combined as a single morning edition. The Rocky Mtn News long gone, The Denver Post is teetering due to its sale to a hedge fund.

The loss of newspapers is devastating IMO. We need local investigative reporting and to the extent local tv news are being sucked up into the Sinclair propaganda network, we may be losing that too.


I subscribe (digital only) to WaPO and Denver Post. About half the year I subscribe (digital) to another nearby local paper, but it is too costly for me to do so year round. sigh...

[lostnfound]

4. Agreed. It's the local investigative stuff we cannot afford to lose

Good local government and oversight by citizens and studies to clarify reality vs myths of social ills...all need a local press.

[murielm99]

2. We subscribe to our local paper.

It is no longer independent. It is more conservative than it used to be. But we still need a source for local news.

[lostnfound]

5. Tampa Bay Times (aka St Pete Times) created their own database of gun deaths for example

They’ve been award winning and still devote talent to deep investigations but this year the newsprint tariffs in Canada have me worried. hanging on as independent paper. Still a somewhat liberal editorial board. I grew up there but not there anymore, so I just subscribed to their $50 annual digital option.

How they devoted time and energy to creating their own database of gun deaths is wonderful.

https://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/2018/03/20/how-one-reporter-overcame-lack-data-and-political-snares-tell-story-rising-numbers

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. I do. One of my friends occasionally mocks me for it,

but I'm far better informed on local things, even restaurant closings, than he is.

[lostnfound]

6. And who else will investigate state government? Part of defense against corrupt oligarchy.

The Tampa Bay Times is often in position to tell the truth about Rick Scott, which is important even at a national level. Independent local papers that aren’t in the pockets of republican apparatus help defend against fascism., TBT has done stories in the Everglades, environmental crises like algae blooms, plight of migrant workers.