The shrinking presence of local news may be dividing the country, Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown says, just days after the Herald's owner, McClatchy, filed for bankruptcy, throwing the future of her paper and 29 others across the US into question.
"With these smaller newspapers drying up across the country, it is creating a collapse of local newspapers and local news and the kind of information around the country," said Brown, who is known for her reporting on accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein."Because there isn't the number of voices and the number of local newspapers, has contributed to the divisions that we're experiencing around the country.
" "I don't think we know what the impact is going to be," Brown said."We've seen this around the country where some of these other chains have been bought up by hedge funds and, in some cases, they've dismantled some of these local newspapers. So of course we're hoping that won't happen to our paper and the papers that are owned by McClatchy.
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