Gannett says many of its 260 regional outlets have 10 or fewer news staff and a lot have five or

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An extreme case in point: The Ithaca Journal in upstate New York now has no locally based editor or publisher and just a single reporter.
Amalie Nash, vice president for local news and audience development at Gannett, confirmed my read of the Ithaca Journal website showing reporter Matt Steecker as the only newsroom contact in town.
The Ithaca Journal and its website are run in tandem with Gannett properties in Binghamton and Elmira, 49 and 33 miles away respectively.
But news from Binghamton and Elmira is not exactly local if you live in Ithaca.
How many Gannett markets are in the same depleted state, publishing what some might classify as "ghost newspapers?" Nash said that many of its 260 properties have 10 or fewer news staff and a lot have five or fewer.
This is how newspapers die It saddened me on this beautiful spring morning to realize that there was again not a single bit of Ithaca news in the Ithaca Journal.
Knapp told me in a phone interview that she was prompted to write after the Journal had dropped its daily editorial page several weeks earlier, and she saw three editions in a row barren of Ithaca stories.
But she told me that she, too, has been unable to dig out a definitive number on how many of the nation's 1,300 daily newspapers have purged local staff and now are "ghosts" patching together regional news and material from freelancers to round out their weekday papers.
Through 2018, Neill Borowski, an experienced editor and a Pulitzer finalist in his reporting days, was overseeing the Binghamton-Elmira-Ithaca group.

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