Employees hoping to find ways to salvage local news in Huron, Brookings, Flandreau and Redfield
Four communities in South Dakota abruptly lost their newspapers this week, leaving more than 40,000 people without a local source of print news – at least in the near term.
Employees at the Huron Plainsman, Redfield Press, Brookings Register and Moody County Enterprise, which served the city of Flandreau, learned last week that operations would cease immediately.
“The decision was not made lightly,”…