Did the city council pass the resolution? Was anyone injured in that car crash? When does the festival start? Who won last night’s high school game?
These are typical questions often answered through the pages of daily or weekly newspapers. But what if a community didn’t have a printed newspaper?
The blank front page of last week’s Fillmore County Journal is a glimpse to what it would be like without the valuable local news coverage. The Journal is among more than 220 daily and weekly newspapers across the state that participated in last week’s “Whiteout” event with no front page stories or photos.
Read Jason Sethre’s commentary on page 4 of the August 14, 2017, edition to get more details.