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![journalismjoggings:
Justin Peters writes in Slate today that the excellent reporting in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on the 10-year kidnapping of three local girls may be the last hurrah of the newspaper:
[T]he Plain Dealer’s collected output over the past week is a testament to the value of the daily regional newspaper in the digital age. It’s also the paper’s swan song. This summer, the Plain Dealer will switch to a three-day-a-week home delivery schedule and lay off at least 53 members of its newsroom. Though the paper will continue to publish every day, don’t expect greatness from the non-delivery editions.
While journalism professors and other close to it have been bemoaning this sad fact for months already, I don’t think many others in Cleveland have yet to realize what this really means. When big stories like this happen—and in Cleveland, there are big stories all too frequently—the local newspaper plays such a crucial role.
By reducing its footprint in the community, the Plain Dealer will just end up further marginalizing groups that have historically been marginalized by news outlets: poor people, old people, minority groups. Their communities will get covered less, and—with the limited availability of the print product—they’ll be less likely to be able to read the coverage.
As I teach in class all the time, without reporters covering these stories, there will be folks in our community who will be without a voice. And that will be a huge loss.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/a1598a638f947d5bbda2db10be784852/tumblr_mmrsmeqY5K1rsy11oo1_250.jpg)
