This interview originally aired on "In the Moment" on SDPB Radio.
Last week, four South Dakota small towns became local news deserts. The News Media Corporation closed the Brookings Register, Huron Plainsman, Moody County Enterprise and Redfield Press.
Our Dakota Political Junkie explores the impacts of shuttering these newspapers and what the closures say about the state of journalism.
Kevin Woster is a long-time journalist in South Dakota.