Why did your hometown newspaper vanish while the next town over kept theirs? This isn’t bad luck — it’s a systemic pattern. Since 2005, the United States has lost over one-third of its local ...

Digital disruption can claim many casualties, from the landline telephone and fax machine to compact disks and encyclopedias. But not all of these can be casually chalked up to the march of progress.

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