When the last reporter leaves: Kentucky’s spreading news desert
A 2025 landscape study commissioned by the Appalachia Funders Network found that where the average American county has 2.5 news outlets, rural Central Appalachian counties have 1.2.
Bill Bishop
Bill Bishop worked as a reporter at The Mountain Eagle in Whitesburg, Kentucky, and at the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman, and as columnist at the Lexington (Kentucky) Herald Leader.