Are “News Deserts” the Latest Risk Factor for Corruption?

Penny Abernathy of the University of North Carolina's journalism school warns that a growing number of communities – especially "the poorest, least educated, and most isolated" – are becoming "news deserts", with closed, "ghost", or remotely-owned local newspapers.

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