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# Every week, two more newspapers close — and ‘news deserts’ grow larger
- URL: https://werd.io/every-week-two-more-newspapers-close-and-news-deserts-grow/
- Published: 2022-06-29T21:38:52.000Z
- Updated: 2022-06-29T21:38:52.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:23

“Already, some 2,500 dailies and weeklies have shuttered since 2005; there are fewer than 6,500 left. Every week, two more disappear. And although many digital-only news sites have cropped up around the nation, most communities that lost a local newspaper will not get a print or digital replacement.”

\[[Link](https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/06/29/news-deserts-newspapers-democracy/)\]