Is any newspaper better than a news desert? Steve Strickbine thinks the answer to that question is yes.
I recently published a story, “National Trust for Local News sells 21 newspapers to a company with a history of gutting local news outlets.” Strickbine, founder and president of the Arizona-based group that acquired the local publications, didn’t respond to my request for comment before publication, but after the story came out, he got in touch. He didn’t challenge the pattern of cuts and reductions outlined in the piece, but didn’t like being associated with “gutting” and “devastating” local newsrooms.
Many of the local newspapers he acquired, he said, would have folded without his intervention.
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