2 good articles on media in CommonWealth

Two news media articles in the November 2 issue of CommonWealth magazine are worth reading:

What happens when a community loses its newspaper?
In Holyoke, Masssachusetts residents still mourn the loss of the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram nearly 20 years later. The newspaper closed after 110 years as Holyoke’s only daily newspaper. Published as a daily since 1882, the newspaper folded in January 1993 after four years of heavy losses. Read the article.


Silent crisis
The shrinking press corps at places such as the State House leads to a decline in what the FCC calls 'accountability reporting' Read the article.