Mediagazer: A look at how the loss of local newspapers, combined with dwindling regional coverage, is affecting American cities like Boulder and Denver (Taylor Kate Brown/BBC)

11:55 AM ET, July 10, 2018

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A look at how the loss of local newspapers, combined with dwindling regional coverage, is affecting American cities like Boulder and Denver — In the past decade, hundreds of local US newspapers have closed or merged. What happens to the communities they leave behind?

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