According to Muck Rack and the Rebuild Local News Coalition's latest Local Journalist Index, a troubling pattern emerges: areas with fewer local journalists report higher rates of loneliness. The decline in working local journalists has accelerated over the past quarter-century, leaving communities with less coverage of the events and people that bind them together.

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