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"A Midway book"
The commitment -- The price of community -- Serving history -- Stop the presses! technology has come to town -- Migratory paths and connections -- Old-school family business -- Seeds of change -- Selling a family newspaper -- Outsourcing and rural America -- Insourcing spirit -- The truth about fake news -- Virus crisis, 2020 -- Nonprofit model -- The future
"Award-winning journalist Dave Hoekstra interviews the people trying to keep the lights on at community newspapers across the country amid buyouts, declining revenues, fake news, and a pandemic. This is not another account of the death of local journalism-but rather a celebration of the community ties, perseverance, and empathy that's demonstrated in community newsrooms across the country"--