OVERSIGHT

The Coronavirus Could Mean the End of Local News

With newspapers experiencing declining ad revenues, senators proposed relief for local newsrooms in the next stimulus bill

Trevor Timm
GEN
Published in
5 min readApr 10, 2020

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A local newspaper in midtown Manhattan on March 31 Photo: Barcroft Media/Getty Images

DDay in and day out, local newsrooms are doing heroic work in the face of the coronavirus. On-the-ground coverage has been crucial for…

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Trevor Timm
GEN
Writer for

Trevor Timm is the executive director of Freedom of the Press Foundation. His writing has appeared the New York Times, the Guardian, and the Intercept.