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EPISODE · Aug 10, 2018 · 48 MIN

The VA Mercury and America's Local News Crisis

from Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad · host Roben Farzad

Berkshire Hathaway, the company run by one of the planet's richest men, ultimately didn't rescue the Richmond Times-Dispatch -- one of Berkshire's many newspaper acquisitions. Two veteran journalists recently left that daily for the Virginia Mercury, a philanthropically backed not-for-profit publication taking a crack at the age-old riddle: How do you sustainably invest in quality local journalism?

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