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Seven Wyoming newspapers were about to be shut. They were given a second life

Newspapers & magazines | The Guardian · Cy Neff · last updated

A group of news execs stepped in to buy them, but across the US, 3,200 local news outlets have shuttered since 2005

Wyoming saw a resurrection last week.

Eight small towns across the vast rural state were reeling from the gut punch of the abrupt closures of their newspapers just a week earlier. Staff had woken up to an email from News Media Corporation (NMC) announcing the immediate closures of the printing presses.

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