Penny Muse Abernathy, author of <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469615431_abernathy">Saving Community Journalism: The Path to Profitability</a> and <a href="https://www.usnewsdeserts.com/">The Expanding News Desert</a>, sat down with It's All Journalism producer Michael O'Connell to discuss Public Good or Private Enterprise? A Policy Discussion on the Future of Local News. The Nov. 18 discussion coincided with the release of a <a href="https://knightfoundation.org/reports/putting-a-price-tag-on-local-news/">new report</a> by Gallup and the Knight Foundation looking at the importance of local news to our democracy and the public's willingness to support it.
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