Report Details the Expansion of News Deserts Across the US

The country is losing two newspapers a week, according to the Local News Initiative

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A new study of the local news ecosystem in the U.S., released Wednesday by the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University, details the troubling expansion of news deserts across the country. 

The report, the fifth since 2016 and the first since the pandemic, compiled data from an analysis of more than 8,000 newspapers and digital sites. The document builds on research that Penny Muse Abernathy, its principal author and a visiting professor at Medill, began documenting in 2004. 

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