When the last paper in Marlow County folded, a retired printer, a school librarian and two hundred neighbours decided to start another. This is how they did it, and what it cost.
Spoken-word nights, zines and bedroom recordings are replacing the stadium anthem. The politics are the same. The sound is not.
Streaming was supposed to finish them. Instead, a handful of small cinemas are thriving by doing everything the multiplex does not.
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When the town paper disappears, the potholes do not. The meetings still happen. What disappears is the person in the back row taking notes.
Hundreds of small, reader-funded newsrooms have launched in five years. A new survey shows what they have in common, and what keeps them alive.
