Source: CounterPunch
by Chris Mills Rodrigo
“Even setting aside the decimation of the Post’s metro desk, the suite of local news options available to Washington, DC residents has shrunk dramatically in last decade as the portion of the digital ad-share pie not gobbled up by tech monopolies has grown smaller. Washington City Paper ended its print circulation in 2022 and, in February of 2024, DCist was shut down by its owner, the NPR-affiliate station WAMU. Luckily for DC residents, several of the staffers laid off in the closure of DCist decided that the service they provided to the community was too important to abandon.” (02/18/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/18/a-worker-led-alternative-to-billionaire-owned-news-in-dc/