Guest Commentary Want a news desert? That’s what happens when newspapers die.
July 17, 2019
By Darrell Todd MaurinaEditor in Chief, Pulaski County Daily NewsIt’s all but impossible to overstate how much damage has been done to local journalism, particularly in the last decade. Depending on how the numbers are calculated, up to 40 percent of all newsroom jobs have been eliminated since 2008. Metro newspapers that once had hundreds…