Facing extinction; the power of influence offers local media a lifeline

For local media, the writing has been on the wall for quite some time.
There’s plenty of pain across the media landscape – culture website The Outline laid off all its remaining staff writers just last week – but it’s perhaps most acute for journalists close to home. The legendary Village Voice – an institution among New York journalists – shuttered just two weeks ago. This followed the end of the New York Daily News as we know it just months before, while els