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Exclusive Excerpt: To Protect Democracy, Recreate Local News Media
These passages are excerpted from the Local Journalism Initiative’s proposal to revitalize local news media in the United States county-by-county. Read the full proposal here. Robert W. McChesney is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign....
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