Reader support, service journalism and smart digital tools are reviving community newspapers – and strengthening civic life.

Why did your hometown newspaper vanish while the next town over kept theirs? This isn’t bad luck — it’s a systemic pattern. Since 2005, the United States has lost over one-third of its local ...

The front page of an early October 2025 edition of The Keene Sentinel features stories about city elections, the ongoing drought in New Hampshire and two Medicare Advantage providers leaving the state ...

Digital disruption can claim many casualties, from the landline telephone and fax machine to compact disks and encyclopedias. But not all of these can be casually chalked up to the march of progress.