WRAL-TV Documentary Producer Cristin Severance on news deserts and the future of local journalism

By: Clayton Henkel

Outlets: North Carolina Newsline

Published: June 29, 2026

Words: 154

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 3 days ago

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News deserts. At first blush, it seems like strange term in an era in which most people are regularly inundated on their devices with boatloads of emails and other messages about developments in the world around them. Unfortunately, as even a cursory look at the news landscape across the United States right now quickly reveals, vast swaths of the country – including many parts of North Carolina – are today totally bereft of …

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