南达科他州7县成新闻荒漠：130多年历史的《South Dakota Mail》每周发行近800份
南达科他州奥罗拉县 Plankinton 市，最新数据显示，南达科他州有7个县被列为新闻荒漠，即没有一家专业的本地新闻机构；全州约一半地区仅有一家媒体报道本地新闻。相关报道于11月2日刊出。
仍在坚守的社区之一是 Plankinton：每周三清晨，Gayle Van Genderen 与 J.P. Studeny 开始投递近800份《South Dakota Mail》，这份报纸已有130多年历史，是当地少数仍在运转的新闻机构之一。两人把报纸称为社区共同的事业，Van Genderen 说，这份报纸不属于办报人自己，而属于所有读者。
西北大学地方新闻倡议的研究显示，截至今年，全美有4700万居民生活在本地新闻有限或完全缺失的环境中。报道这一现象的记者 Eda Uzunlar 正在全美农村地区为波因特媒体研究院的“You Can Trust Me”全国新闻项目进行采访。在新闻荒漠县，市议会、学区与县政府的决策缺少日常监督，居民获取本地信息的渠道随之收窄。
（来源：SDPB）
Seven South Dakota Counties Are News Deserts as the 130-Year-Old South Dakota Mail Still Delivers Nearly 800 Copies a Week
In Plankinton, Aurora County, South Dakota, new data shows seven of the state's counties are classified as news deserts, with no professional local news outlet dedicated to them, and about half the state has only one outlet covering local news, according to reporting published November 2.
Plankinton is one community that still has a dedicated paper: early every Wednesday, Gayle Van Genderen and J.P. Studeny begin delivering nearly 800 copies of the South Dakota Mail, a newspaper more than 130 years old and one of the few news outlets still operating in the area. The two describe the paper as a community undertaking; Van Genderen says it does not belong to its publishers but to everyone who reads it.
Research from Northwestern University's Local News Initiative shows that as of this year, 47 million U.S. residents live with limited or no access to local news. Reporter Eda Uzunlar is traveling rural regions around the country for the Poynter Institute's national 'You Can Trust Me' news project. In news-desert counties, decisions by city councils, school boards and county governments lose day-to-day scrutiny, and residents' channels for local information narrow.
(Source: SDPB)
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图片来源：图：位于皮尔的南达科他州议会大厦。w_lemay 摄，CC BY-SA 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The South Dakota State Capitol in Pierre. By w_lemay, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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