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in Vermont shows how independent, small-town journalism can thrive by expanding coverage, using innovative strategies, and improving relationships with businesses. Now under local ownership, the paper has zeroed in on the tourist industry and the local mountain resorts’ arts and cultural offerings.These community-building initiatives fill a vacuum created by a serious demise in local journalism, one that impacts citizens’ ability to get accurate information about their communities.
Rural journalism’s pressures are especially troublesome. According to Abernathy, “More than half of the communities that have lost newspapers are in suburban or rural areas, where the population is shrinking, rather than growing. Rural counties that lost newspapers were often located 50 miles or more from a major metro market and were losing population.
Sarabeth Berman, chief executive officer of the American Journalism Project, acknowledges that bolstering rural journalism is difficult. But she emphasizes the importance of coming up with new models since civic engagement declines in communities without a local paper, particularly rural communities.
Studies like one published by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2018, have shown that communities suffer when they lose their news source. Among otherThe vacuum in rural communities also creates greater opportunities for the spreading of disinformation, which is the deliberate sharing of lies. The same is true for misinformation, which is the unintentional distribution of falsehoods.
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