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Community-based entrepreneurs are leading the way in solving the local news crisis

  • Written by Dan Kennedy, Professor of Journalism, Northeastern University

The local news crisis has led to no end of policy proposals, funding initiatives and angry denunciations of the harm done to journalism by the likes of Craigslist, Google and Facebook.

Ideas for responding to the crisis include paying recent journalism school graduates with state tax revenues to cover underserved communities, as in California;...

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