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Loneliness and local news: How 'news deserts' increase isolation

phys.org · 3hShare

As local news organizations continue to disappear across the United States, George Washington University researchers are linking shrinking access to community-based journalism to stronger feelings of isolation and loneliness.

First report: Social isolation in Australia has nearly doubled over two decades — phys.org, 2d