There was a rare bright spot on the journalism front last week: investor Warren Buffett, owner of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., purchased a few dozen daily newspapers, saying he is bullish on local journalism.
"I believe newspapers that intensively cover their communities will have a good future. It's your job to make your paper indispensable to anyone who cares about what is going on in your city or town," he wrote in a letter to the newspapers' staffers. "No one has ever stopped reading halfway through a story that was about them or their neighbors."
I agree wholeheartedly (this should come as no surprise to anyone). I have worked at small papers and large papers, and I've come to believe strongly in the value and potential of community journalism, where reporters know who and what they are writing about.
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