Local newspapers are withering under destructive owners. We should worry | Margaret Sullivan
by Margaret Sullivan from US news | The Guardian on (#6HYN9)
Huge swaths of the country have turned into news deserts', lacking credible journalism. I fear for the Baltimore Sun
Paul Moore vividly remembers the Baltimore Sun in its heyday, not so long ago.
More than 400 newsroom staff, six foreign bureaus and a 12-person Washington bureau," Moore recalled. He was the Sun's deputy managing editor (and, for a time, its public editor) until 2009. We were a full-service newspaper, covering the country, the region and the world." And winning multiple Pulitzer Prizes for the quality of its aggressive, ambitious journalism.
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