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One large study found that when a major daily newspaper covering a federal judicial district disappears, corruption cases there—bribery, embezzlement, fraud—rise by more than 7%.
The researchers suggest officials feel emboldened when no one's looking.
www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...
cjr.org
How the lack of newspapers feeds a rise in local corruption.
Our study also found that digital media sites didn’t make much of a difference.