Margaret Sullivan: ‘Democracy ... is about to die in Youngstown’ with closing of local newspaper

(Jeff Swensen for The Washington Post) The Vindicator newspaper is sold at Vindicator Square in Youngstown, Ohio, in July 2019.

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