Professor Dermot Murphy Presented “Financing Dies in Darkness? The Impact of Newspaper Closures on Public Finance.”
Professor Dermot Murphy presented “Financing dies in darkness? The impact of newspaper closures on public finance'”, at the 2018 Municipal Finance Conference. The paper is available here, and a video of his presentation is available here. A key finding of the study is that “local government borrowing costs significantly increased for counties that have experienced a newspaper closure.
Professor Murphy was also interviewed by Janine Jackson from Local News Cuts on the impact on local governments from newspapers closing. Listen or read the interview here.
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Modified on September 12, 2018