MON First Breakouts – Session #2: WHY LOCAL NEWS MATTERS—AND HOW TO SAVE IT

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Who will tell the stories of our communities? By now, you’ve heard that local newspapers are closing at an alarming rate. Two vanish each week. But local news is surviving, reimagined by a new generation of news outlets taking root from Vermont to Texas to California. BETH MACY, author of Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America, and SARABETH BERMAN, CEO of the American Journalism Project, will talk with The Wall Street Journal reporter ERICH SCHWARTZEL about how the vital power of local news is rebuilding the food chain of trustworthy information.

July 20
9:30 am — 10:30 am

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Beth Macy, Erich Schwartzel, Sarabeth Berman

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