In New Orleans, Broadband Goes to Whites, Affluent
The decision by the owners of the Times-Picayune in New Orleans to offer a printed newspaper only three days a week, delivering the news online the rest of the time, raises a question particularly relevant to communities of color: What about those who don’t have access to the Internet?
Matt Davis of the Lens, which calls itself the New Orleans area’s first nonprofit, nonpartisan public-interest newsroom, reported in March, “Subscribers to high-speed Internet services in New Orleans are generally white and in the higher income brackets, according
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