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.
James Branscome
James Branscome is a retired managing director of Standard & Poor’s and a former journalist whose articles have appeared in the Washington Post, The New York Times, Business Week and the Mountain Eagle of Whitesburg, Kentucky.