
Concern about effect of economic stress to local news in the U.S. 2020, by politics
A survey exploring perspectives on local news and the coronavirus in the United States in April 2020 revealed that 66 percent of Demcorats were concerned about that their local news organization would be affected by the economic downturn caused by the pandemic. Political party identification greatly altered attitudes to this issue, with just nine percent of Republicans expressing a great deal of concern that their local outlet would be impacted.