News Deserts Are Growing, Publishing Executives Say (mediapost.com)

Of those working in English-speaking news and publishing, 60% say news deserts are a problem, and over 25% say they are an increasingly significant one, according to the Local News Deserts Survey Report Factsheet from PressReader. Only 15% see no issue.

And while 86% agree that local news is vital to democracy, 45% believe that access to it has decreased in the past decade. Almost 50% are pessimistic about the industry’s ability to reverse the problem.
more at: https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/379758/news-deserts-are-growing-publishing-executives-sa.html

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