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Number of counties without a local newspaper in the United States in 2018 and 2020, by region

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Release date

June 2020

Region

United States

Survey time period

2018 and 2020

Supplementary notes

Data prior to 2020 comes from previous reports.
States were grouped into regions thus:
Pacific: AK, CA, HI, OR, WA
Mountain: AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, WY
Midwest: IL, IN, MI, OH, WI, IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD
South: DE, DC, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV, AL, KY, MS, TN, AR, LA, OK, TX
Mid-Atlantic: NJ, NY, PA
New England: CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT

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Counties without local newspapers in the U.S. 2018-2020, by region

Published by ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Research Department, Jun 23, 2020
News deserts are becoming an issue in communities all across the United States, with *** counties lacking a local newspaper in 2020, up from *** in 2018. The source noted that California lost the most dailies, but it was the South (the region with some of the country's poorest states) which had the most news deserts. In 2020, a total of *** counties did not have a local newspaper, compared to just **** in the Mid-Atlantic region and in New England.
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