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The New York Times had an observational article this week on the career trajectory of former cable news hosts who find themselves out of work. The current trajectory leads many of them to Substack and You Tube, where they can count on at least a portion of their former audiences migrating with them.
The question is can a similar model be used by local journalists in a world where cutbacks are commonplace? Probably not, because the audiences are not big enough to be profitable. Unless a local host could actually offer something not being offered by traditional local sources of news.
