Many adults can likely recall mornings during their childhood when newspapers were tossed into the driveways of many homes throughout their neighborhoods. Some adults might even have delivered papers from their bicycles each morning.

Such scenes may now be a relic of the past, thanks in large part to wide reliance on the Internet as a source for news. But the benefits of reading a daily newspaper are no less substantial today than they were when enterprising youngsters could be seen tossing newspapers into driveways in neighborhoods across the nation in the wee hours of the morning. In fact, the American Journalism Project reports that the loss of local news is adversely affecting democracy by contributing to polarization, a decline in voting participation and less government accountabili

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