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TexasTowelie

(128,150 posts)
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 11:19 PM Mar 2024

Local news is big news for these Maine newspapers that found a lifeline - NBC News



Newsrooms at the Lewiston Sun Journal and 20 other daily and weekly newspapers in Maine got a boost when they were sold to the not-for-profit National Trust for Local News. NBC News' Harry Smith spoke with the Sun Journal's publisher and Executive Editor about the paper's vital mission.
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Local news is big news for these Maine newspapers that found a lifeline - NBC News (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2024 OP
I am so grateful for this Easterncedar Mar 2024 #1
Back in the 90's, my wife was a feature writer for the Bangor Daily News. OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2024 #3
Impressive! Easterncedar Mar 2024 #4
Awesome....this consortium(?) of news sources have integrated to provide a common internet interface. OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2024 #2

Easterncedar

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1. I am so grateful for this
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 11:33 PM
Mar 2024

These papers provide excellent and vital local news and issues coverage and have great photographers and columnists, too. I know what they do to support good government at all levels.

I am old, so I subscribe to two print (actual print!) newspapers. One, the Kennebec Journal, is on my doorstep 6 days a week. One, from my old hometown in NewYork, the Niagara Gazette, comes in two batches a week by US mail. In these times, I don’t take this for granted.

Yeah, I subscribe to three online news sites, too. Journalism is worth supporting.

OAITW r.2.0

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3. Back in the 90's, my wife was a feature writer for the Bangor Daily News.
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 11:42 PM
Mar 2024

She got an IBM-PC with 2 5-1/4 floppies (one for the - O/S), the other data. She was one of the 1st journalists to get a remote connection with the BDN. She wrote awesome stories with her own by-line.

OAITW r.2.0

(32,617 posts)
2. Awesome....this consortium(?) of news sources have integrated to provide a common internet interface.
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 11:37 PM
Mar 2024

I read the Courier on-line to stay connected with "home"...I think they have the best approach in using both internet and paper to get the news/important local stories reported and covered.

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