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We Need A New Deal To Save Local Journalism

defector.com · Diana Moskovitz · last updated
During the first week of the fires, I would go up to my building’s roof once a day. I’d look at the Los Angeles skyline at whatever shade of yellow-orange-brown muck the fires had delivered that day and take a photo, and then I’d scurry back inside.

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