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Hyperlocal N.J. websites keep community news alive | Letters
Updated Mar 07, 2021;
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There is no doubt that legacy media is consolidating and that respected, long-standing publications like the Star-Ledger and the Bergen Record have had to consolidate because of the evolution of online media, ownership changes and the erosion of print media’s readership and its advertising base.
In many cases, this has led to layoffs of journalists, and local news has become the main casualty.
Recently, Christopher Daggett, the former state official and current board chairperson of the New Jersey Civic Information Consortium, wrote in a Star-Ledger guest column that “Local news is facing a real structural problem. It’s being weakened. It’s disappearing.”