National Newspaper Week. Keep Community Newspapers Viable

How do you get your news? This week we celebrate National Newspaper Week in which we recognize the valuable service and important role newspapers play in our daily lives.

For more than 300 years, countless words have been printed and delivered to communities across North America, keeping people informed about the happenings in their community and country.

The rise of the internet and social media has created a unique challenge for the daily and weekly printed paper. Between the years 2004 and 2018, nearly 2,000 papers have ceased printing, some going strictly digital while others going ou...