It might be that local papers are a bad fit for online, but I've never seen them as directly competing with national news anyway. The paper versions of my local

It might be that local papers are a bad fit for online, but I've never seen them as directly competing with national news anyway. The paper versions of my local certainly seem okay, and there's a lack of clickbait junk in them. The online version on the other hand is a real crapshoot.