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Does coronavirus aid to news outlets undermine journalistic credibility?

  • Written by Patrick Lee Plaisance, Don W. Davis Professor of Ethics, Pennsylvania State University
imageMore than two dozen newsrooms have shut down and stopped the presses during the pandemic. Tom Werner/Getty

The news business, like every other, is struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic. The economic crisis has forced more than two dozen small-town newsrooms to shut down and has accelerated media job losses – including hundreds of layoffs...

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