The pandemic is accelerating the demise of rural, small-town newspapers

SOME WITH LONG-TIME
ASSOCIATIONS WITH MY FAMILY

“Small-town weekly newspapers across the country are writing their own obituaries as the coronavirus pandemic shutters businesses that provide advertising revenue.”

Such sad news. My great uncle subscribed to the Lake Preston Times for decades, possibly 70 or even 80 years. He lived to be 101. It was his hometown newspaper. https://t.co/vRSsLj4MRn

— aaronjhill 😷 (@aaronjhill) April 3, 2020

“The April 1 headline of The Lake Preston Times in Lake Preston, South Dakota, read ‘This is It!’ It was no April Fool’s joke: The paper was printing its last issue after nearly 140 years of publication.”

ajh