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Controversial immigrant services bill passes in Senate

  • By Madeline Shannon | The Center Square

(The Center Square) – A bill to protect workers employed by immigrant support services passed the California Senate on Tuesday afternoon, despite some lawmakers' comments about the legislation potentially hurting independent journalists.

Commentary

When the last reporter leaves: Kentucky’s spreading news desert

  • James Branscome, Bill Bishop

In the late summer of 1974 somebody set fire to the Mountain Eagle in Whitesburg. The blaze took the offices, the files, the bound archives — most of the institutional memory of Letcher County that Tom and Pat Gish had been accumulating since they bought the paper in 1956 and changed its masthead from “A […]

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The history of Indianapolis lives in old newspaper archives. Can we get to it?

  • Tracey Compton, Indianapolis Public Editor

Back in the day, when newspapers were flush with resources, they had internal libraries or archives of all of their stories, casually referred to as morgues. It was common practice for reporters to “check the morgue” before writing any story about the community. Reporters could learn the history of almost anything in Indianapolis by checking […]