report · Penelope Muse Abernathy · tradition:
attention-economy
Documented the closure of more than 2,000 US newspapers since 2005, with the Medill State of Local News reports (2022- ) continuing the count.
The book’s stance. Bears on Chapter 10’s local-journalism-collapse claim and the “preservation mostly held” softening. Supports with numbers: the measured scale of local-news collapse. Quote-backed supports/pressureTests edges pending extraction of the source PDF.
Availability. Cited by reference; no local copy held in the repo.