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This commentary originally appeared in The Conversation. Is local news readily available in your town? Do reporters still cover your school board and other municipal meetings? If you answered yes, you are likely wealthier than the average American, and you live in or near a metro area. The State of Local News Project at Northwestern […] The post Roughly half of US counties have only one outlet or less appeared first on Colorado Newsline.

Dale R. Anglin has spent more than twenty years in the nonprofit sector, channeling millions of dollars to social service organizations. Among those projects was Cleveland Documenters, a local initiative that paid hundreds of residents to take notes at government meetings and then expanded to regular reporting and investigative pieces as the nonprofit news outlet […]

One of the most vexing problems is the persistence of inequity between communities that are local journalism haves and have-nots.

But roughly half of U.S. counties have only one news outlet or less.

The number of nonprofit news outlets is holding steady as they go out of business just as fast as they are founded.