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She’s a billionaire, transforming the music industry in real time. Few living celebrities have her scale of cultural influence. Shouldn’t someone be, at least, attempting to look without fear or favor to see if she’s keeping her side of the street clean?
Gannett has around 200 newsrooms, and editorial employees at around two dozen of those will go on strike.
It might not be as mustache-twirling a villain as Alden Global Capital, but its enormous scale has meant enormous losses for local journalism.
Partnerships are key ways to sustain local news in places where news coverage is diminishing or critical issues are going underreported.
“Instead of focusing on one very small geographic area, that same reporter may look for commonalities and trends across multiple areas.”
This time it’s Lee Enterprises in the cross-hairs. Adding it to its empire would leave two American local newspaper giants — Gannett and Alden — and everyone else far behind.
The marketplace for online news has thus far rewarded (a) premium quality and (b) local connection. USA Today’s digital subscription offering seems likely, in its current form at least, to fall between those two stools.