Since 2015, GateHouse Media closed 10 newspapers in Arkansas, in North Little Rock, Lonoke, Cabot, Carlisle, Sherwood, Maumelle, Jacksonville, Arkadelphia and Prescott, where it published two papers, the Hope Star and Nevada County Picayune Times. Many of those towns are in rural and lower-income areas, often with an aging population, according to the AP. have lost their main source of local news over the past 15 years, the Associated Press found in analyzing data compiled by University of North Carolina researchers. Whatever you think about newspapers or the hardworking, underpaid journalists they employ, the decades-long decline of hometown newspapers is creating what researchers call "news deserts" - towns, counties and even larger areas that no longer have regular local coverage of events and issues that affect real people. Constitution and a key advocate for the Bill of Rights.
Sunshine Week has been observed annually since 2005 to coincide with the March 16 birthday of James Madison, the father of the U.S.
This unfolding tragedy becomes especially noticeable this week (March 10-16) as journalists and open-government advocates mark Sunshine Week. and Arkansas, as newspapers close or shrink. The Washington Post motto, "Democracy Dies In Darkness," may seem a bit melodramatic, but is an apt description of the disaster unfolding in communities across the U.S.
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