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To: Sam who wrote (426271)	12/30/2019 7:05:17 AM
From: Sam	Respond to of 540722

More Than 1 in 5 U.S. Papers Has Closed. This Is the Result. Readers across the country told us how they were affected by the decline of local news: “Our community does not know itself.” By Lara Takenaga Dec. 21, 2019 City Council and school board meetings. Small-town sports and politics. Local government corruption. These are a handful of the news and issues that go unreported when small newspapers close or are gutted by layoffs. Over the past 15 years, more than one in five papers in the United States has shuttered, and the number of journalists working for newspapers has been cut in half, according to research by the University of North Carolina’s School of Media and Journalism. That has led to the rise of hollowed-out “ghost papers” and communities across the country without any local paper. We asked readers living in communities with newspapers that were shut down or gutted to tell us how they had been affected. Here is a selection of their responses, which have been lightly edited. continues at nytimes.com

To: Sam who wrote (426271)	12/30/2019 9:49:20 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 540722

We're actively shopping for somewhere else to live- but it's hard to beat the quality of life in the Bay Area in the suburbs. You've got great jobs, wonderful climate, fantastic entertainment and recreation- oceans, mountains, wineries of all kinds and several appellations, liberal people, and did I mention the climate? :-) No snow to shovel- ever. No ice. Intensely hot days are rare. My kids sure do not want to leave either.