Media
Read or Listen to Seattle Time Publisher/CEO Frank Blethen’s 2023 speech in Brussel to the European Union.
Newspaper sustainability legislation:
- https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/congress-fiddles-as-local-news-industry-burns/
- https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/new-york-newspapers-form-coalition-to-help-save-industry/
- https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2023/2023-news-deserts-report-penny-abernathy-medill/
Postage rates and subsidy:
- https://ci.uky.edu/irj/rural-blog/more-200-newspapers-complain-about-us-postal-services-poor-mail-delivery-and
- https://about.usps.com/who/profile/history/periodicals-postage-history.htm
- https://www.nna.org/newspapers-periodical-postage-rates-to-rise-dramatically-in-2023#:~:text=Local%20newspaper%20publishers%20entering%20their%20subscribers%E2%80%99%20newspapers%20at,will%20increase%20by%20an%20average%20of%20about%204%25.
- https://www.quillmag.com/2021/09/28/rising-postal-rates-again-prompt-publisher-concerns/
Saving local news:
- https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/qa-francis-wick-on-saving-local-news-nw-journalism-and-more/
- https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/catching-up-with-and-rooting-for-an-entrepreneur-taking-a-chance-on-fixer-upper-newspapers/
Anti Trust:
News deserts:
- https://www.usnewsdeserts.com/
- https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2022/how-we-end-local-news-deserts/
- https://www.cislm.org/what-exactly-is-a-news-desert/
- https://www.poynter.org/locally/2020/unc-news-deserts-report-2020/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/ghost-papers-and-news-deserts-will-america-ever-get-its-local-news-back/2019/12/25/2f57c7d4-1ddd-11ea-9ddd-3e0321c180e7_story.html