Do You Miss a Local Newspaper?

National news is important, but community news is what impacts our daily lives

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Recently I explained why I have done something I never thought I’d do: I canceled my subscription to the local newspaper.

Read that story here:

After Four Decades, I Canceled the Orlando Sentinel

I genuinely miss the local paper, but I don’t miss what the Orlando Sentinel has become.

JoAnne Wallis left this comment:

I’m experiencing the same types of problems with our local paper. After a couple of corporate transfers of ownership, our local paper really isn’t local anymore. It makes me sad to see the homogenization of newspapers across our country.

I understand why small local papers are disappearing at an alarming rate. I also understand the economic drivers behind the consolidation of resources and shrinking of even the major daily papers. I don’t like it, it saddens me, but it’s reality.

The question is: What can…