This article originally appeared on OJR: the Online Journalism Review.

While the newspaper industry struggles to find new definition in an Internet age, the population most at risk of being left behind is low-income communities. Local newspapers are suffering significant losses in the industry, and yet the medium is still heavily relied upon as a [...]

It’s not often that South Los Angeles makes it way onto the front page of the Los Angeles Times. In fact, coverage of the area has been so consistently bad that some (including “LA Four” rioter Henry Watson) partially blame the closed mindedness of the dominant paper in the city for the LA Riots of [...]