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Conversation prompt

Who should pay for local news?

If the market will not sustain local reporting, who, if anyone, should pay for it, and how do we keep the funder from becoming the editor?

Thousands of counties no longer have a daily newspaper. Where local reporting disappears, voter turnout falls, municipal borrowing costs rise, and rumors fill the gap.

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