The Office spin-off contrasts journalists' self-image as a pillar of democracy with what the job often entails.

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The front page of an early October 2025 edition of The Keene Sentinel features stories about city elections, the ongoing drought in New Hampshire and two Medicare Advantage providers leaving the state ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with former NPR host David Greene who is set to take over LNP, the Pennsylvania newspaper where he was once an intern.

Why did your hometown newspaper vanish while the next town over kept theirs? This isn’t bad luck — it’s a systemic pattern. Since 2005, the United States has lost over one-third of its local ...

EASTON, Pa. - The Lehigh Valley's longest continuously published newspaper, the Express-Times, has announced it is ending its print edition next year. "I think it's really bad because the ...

To hear Jay Lucas tell it, there was no better place to grow up than mid-century Newport, New Hampshire. “It was an idyllic experience,” Lucas says, in one of a series of promotional videos he’s made ...

Peacock attempted to recapture the magic of The Office in The Paper, a spin-off series set at a local newspaper. The mockumentary follows the travails of the Toledo Truth Teller, a once-thriving paper ...