Notes
1 See Penelope Muse Abernathy, “The Expanding News Desert,” The Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media, School of Media and Journalism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018, and Christine Schmidt, “Facebook Enters the News Desert Battle, Trying to Find Enough Local News for Its Today In Feature,” NiemanLab, March 18, 2019.
2 Pengjie Gao, Chang Lee, and Dermot Murphy, “Financing Dies in Darkness? The Impact of Newspaper Closures on Public Finance,” Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming.
3 Danny Hayes and Jennifer L. Lawless, “The Decline of Local News and Its Effects: New Evidence from Longitudinal Data,” The Journal of Politics, vol. 80, no. 1, 2018.
4 Meghan E. Rubado and Jay T. Jennings, “Political Consequences of the Endangered Local Watchdog: Newspaper Decline and Mayoral Elections in the United States,” Urban Affairs Review, 2019.
5 Joshua P. Darr, Matthew P. Hitt, and Johanna L. Dunaway, “Newspaper Closures Polarize Voting Behavior,” Journal of Communication, vol. 68, no. 6, 2018.
6 Guy Rolnik et al., “Protecting Journalism in the Age of Digital Platforms,” report by the media subcommittee of the Committee for the Study of Digital Platforms, George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, 2019.