Perspective | This rural news start-up has two reporters and an editor with no broadband. Already, it’s made an impact.

Perspective: In western Virginia, veterans of a once-great newspaper are starting something small with big ambitions for serving Appalachian readers.

More than 1,800 local papers have closed since 2004 as print advertising revenue plummeted and reader habits shifted to online sources. The shuttering of those papers, along with the shrinking of other local news sources, is having profound negative effects on society.

Rife told me she took a buyout from the Roanoke paper after she was told she would no longer be able to do many in-depth stories on the health beat, even in the midst of a pandemic. Much of it is considered part of Appalachia — “an easy part of the state to stereotype,” Yancey noted. Cardinal’s mission includes providing a more nuanced picture of the region to the rest of the state.comes from foundations, businesses and individual donors; it has applied for nonprofit status.

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