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What to do to save local news

More money for starters, but also different institutions

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Matthew Yglesias
Dec 23, 2020
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I’ve been wanting for a while now to write something about the structural decline of local news coverage. This is probably the single biggest political development of my lifetime, and while it’s widely recognized, it continues to be seriously underrated.

The basic reality is that politics is heavily …

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