The demise of a West Virginia newspaper

Owners are shuttering two newspapers every week, many of them in rural places like Welch, West Virginia. Missy Nester grew up in Welch and bought a paper in 2018 to save it. But she couldn't make the economics work and last year, shuttered the Welch News.

Reporter Todd Melby went to Welch to find out more about Nester's efforts and what is lost when a town doesn't have local news.

This story originally aired on WVPB’s Us & Them and was supported by the Pulitzer Center.