Startups aim to reinvigorate local news in America
Digital experiments try different ways to fill a glaring gap
IN ITS HEYDAY in the 1950s, the spacious five-storey redbrick building on North Calvert Street housed the hundreds of employees of the Baltimore Sun, the city’s pre-eminent newspaper. Like other local papers across America, the Sun has since fallen on hard times. In 2018, after years of lay-offs, it moved out of downtown.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Enter the startups”
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