Opinion | LEBassett: The U.S. has lost nearly 2,000 local and regional newspapers since 2004, leaving vast and growing news deserts across swaths of the country. - MSNBCDaily
this month to Julie K. Brown, the Miami Herald reporter who exposed the corrupt lenient plea bargain prosecutors gave billionaire Jeffrey Epstein after he trafficked and molested at least 80 teenage girls.
Brown told Goldberg that she began her career at a newspaper in Philadelphia when the industry was still lucrative and thriving."We had so many news organizations and papers, and it was so competitive," Brown said. There were people covering"every single city council, planning board, zoning board" meeting. Reporters then were"used to uncovering all this corruption. We're used to finding injustices pretty easily and writing these stories pretty easily.
Other newspapers, like The Washington Post, continue to thrive thanks to billionaire benefactors , but that doesn't help the rest of the industry. Lately, it's more often the case that a wealthy and predatory, sells off the physical newsroom and replaces well-paid veteran reporters with young aggregators or contractors who are willing to work for much less money.
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