Fairfield County News ‘Scrum’ [INTERACTIVE GRAPHIC]

More than 100 media outlets currently deliver local news and information to the suburban towns comprising the Fairfield County, CT “Gold Coast,” and almost all are supported by local advertising.

What the layers of local news in Fairfield County reveal is an intensifying media scramble for American towns, “among everyone who recognizes that community news is a durable human need, and that newspapers are moribund,” said Carll Tucker, CEO of The Daily Voice. Tucker describes the news scene in the suburbs as “a giant scrum.”

Explore the Fairfield County news landscape in the graphic below, and read more of the story at: Columbia Journalism Review – CJR.org