When the giant publishing chain Gannett shut down its money-losing weekly print newspaper the Brookline Tab last year, I joined many others around the country living within an area with minimal or no local news coverage.
Gannett
GCI,
still has an online version here in Brookline, Massachusetts, but it has pivoted to a regional model and what I read about Brookline is far from substantive. I suppose it’s something. There are millions of Americans who live in a county with no news outlet — what is known as a news desert.
So, more journalists and others in their 60s and 70s have stepped up to help fill that void.
I’m volunteering on Brookline.News, a digital, nonprofit newspaper that launched in April in my hometown, Brookline, a suburb of Boston. (So far, I’ve interviewed older residents and senior service leaders to find out what issues…
