MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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The precipitous decline of state political coverage
By ocean-kat on Thu, 07/10/2014 - 4:02pm |Those two states are part of a nationwide drop in statehouse coverage. Since 2003, the number of full-time reporters covering state legislatures for daily newspapers has declined 35 percent, according to a new study published Thursday by the Pew Research Center. Less than one third of the 801 daily newspapers in the U.S. send a reporter — full-time or part-time — to state capitol buildings, Pew found, citing data from the Alliance of Audited Media.
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