There's no reason to think that a Nextdoor-like service would have saved local news – Media Nation
Every so often, media observers berate the newspaper business for letting upstarts encroach on their turf rather than innovating themselves. Weirdly enough, I've heard a number of people over the years assert that newspapers should have unveiled a free classified-ad service in order to forestall the rise of Craigslist — as if giving away classified…