The digital evangelists have long preached that newspapers are dead or dying, and since the vast majority of this country's 1,300 or so papers are small, local publications, that would mean many of them are doomed.
But a new study by the by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism finds that a whopping 72 percent of adults follow local news quite closely, and that local papers "are by far the source they rely on for much of the local information they need."
