Long-Struggling Local Newspapers Pushed to Brink by Coronavirus
- Publications across the country are cutting print days, staff
- In Oregon, Smith family sells off newspapers after 87-year run
A man reads a newspaper on the sidewalk in Brooklyn, New York, on March 31.
Photographer: Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images
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The late Elmo Smith and his wife borrowed $25 in 1933 to start a mimeographed weekly newspaper along Oregon’s Snake River, near the Idaho border.