I’ve been watching the saga for years since Alden took over the Denver Post, and their conglomerates bought the local newspapers in all directions from my town,

I’ve been watching the saga for years since Alden took over the Denver Post, and their conglomerates bought the local newspapers in all directions from my town, eliminated the local offices and journalists and consolidated them into one office with a skeleton crew staff that no longer publishes much local content. But my emotionalism about that aside, I think this study does a really good job of explaining what’s going on: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29743/w29743.pdf https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29743/w297...