The coronavirus has closed more than 50 local newsrooms across America. And counting.

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At first, the pandemic cost newsrooms jobs and communities critical work. Now it’s starting to end entire newsrooms.

In many places, it started with a cut in print daysFurloughsLayoffs. Just to get through the crisis, newsroom leaders told readers.

In some places, none of it was enough.

Now, small newsrooms around the country, often more than 100 years old, often the only news source in those places, are closing under the weight of the coronavirus. Some report they’re merging with nearby publications. But that “merger” means the end of news dedicated to those communities, the evaporation of institutional knowledge and the loss of local jobs.

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