Rebuilding civic life requires truthful, independent journalism

The steady collapse of local journalism isn’t just a story about newspapers — it’s a story about democracy itself. In a Constitution Day address, Wisconsin Watch CEO George Stanley traced how the digital marketplace hollowed out the business model that once sustained community news. What’s left, he warns, is a landscape of “ghost papers,” misinformation, and distrust. Yet Stanley’s message isn’t despair — it’s a call to rebuild civic life by rebuilding local news, one reporter and one community at a time. Mr. Stanley’s full commentary available at Wisconsin Watch is worth your time.

George Stanley

Wisconsin Watch

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