How Private Equity Gutted Local Newspapers: A Data-Driven Autopsy
Private-equity raids turn watchdogs into ghost papers. Here’s the debt-to-dividend playbook and the data behind 2,500 vanished U.S. newspapers since 2005.
news-deserts
What Is a News Desert and Why It Matters
Why do some Charlotte suburbs hear crickets, not city hall? Discover how news deserts form, why they hollow communities, and what Mercury Local plans to do about it.