Local reporting is important. In fact it’s sort of what we do on Main Street Speaks. So for this episode we speak with Christine Schmidt of the Local News Lab, and Bud Meyer and Andy Alexander of Foothills Forum — a nonprofit that provides independent journalism to the local newspaper, Rappahannock News — about the importance of local news and its future. 

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