Here’s a way to support your community news source and rebuild journalism. A generous local donor has offered an anonymous $5,000 match for donations to My Neighborhood News Network — My Edmonds News, MLTnews and Lynnwood Today — in conjunction with the screening of the documentary Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink at the Edmonds Theater in downtown Edmonds Saturday, Oct. 25.
The screening is being co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Snohomish County.
Doors open at 11 a.m. for the screening, which will be followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A. Stripped for Parts describes how hedge funds took control of many legacy newspapers, sold off assets — including their buildings — and made severe cuts to newsrooms. In the past 20 years, 2,000 newspapers