In a changing media landscape, some rural newspapers are finding ways to stay alive
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Jim Meadows, Harvest Public Media
An exterior view of the Mount Vernon-Lisbon Sun offices, in a former dentist's office in downtown Mount Vernon, Iowa. The newspaper was recently bought by the University of Iowa's student newspaper, The Daily Iowan. (Zachary Oren Smith/Iowa Public Radio)
The number of newspapers in the U.S. has dropped drastically in the last 20 years. Rural newspapers are especially vulnerable in the ever-changing news business, but some have figured out how to survive.
