Our daughter lives in Chico, California. You may have heard of it; it was the town closest to the town of Paradise that burned to the ground. Thousands of people took refuge in Chico.
Chico has a daily newspaper, the News and Review. It is a reasonably good paper, reporting on events at Chico State University, the city government, and Butte County news. It had the usual news section, editorials, features, letters to the editor–all the things you expect a local paper to have.
The paper was in trouble before the coronavirus. Ad revenues were down, subscriptions were down, and people thought they were getting what they needed on Facebook, of all things. When the virus hit, ads dropped to near zero, and reporters and staffers were laid off. Whether the paper survives or not is iffy.
Chico, by the way, has a population of over 100,000 people.
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