Seven Wyoming newspapers were about to be shut. They were given a second life

A group of news execs stepped in to buy them, but across the US, 3,200 local news outlets have shuttered since 2005

Wyoming saw a resurrection last week.

Eight small towns across the vast rural state were reeling from the gut punch of the abrupt closures of their newspapers just a week earlier. Staff had woken up to an email from News Media Corporation (NMC) announcing the immediate closures of the printing presses.